Covington v. Buffett’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1987
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on People Ex Rel. Sherwood v. State Board of Canvassers · People Ex Rel. Hatzel v. . Hall · Worman v. Hagan · Mauran, Adjutant Gen. C. v. Smith, Governor, C. · Peabody v. School Committee
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * We hold that this court has no jurisdiction to determine whether a vacancy exists in the office of senator for Talbot county, and, unless a vacancy does exist, no election can be had for the purpose of electing a senator. The courts are without jurisdiction to compel the appellees to place the name of the appellant on the official ballot until the tribunal having the exclusive authority under the constitution to decide whether a vacancy exists passes upon that question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hickey
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.