Clary v. Hurst’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably Tigner v. First Nat. Bank of Angleton (1954), Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City v. Woodworth (1923)
25 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And by ‘contest’ here is meant, we think, a suit in which the validity of the election, or the correct ascertainment of the result thereof, is the subject-matter of litigation in a court having jurisdiction to hear and determine such issues.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stephens v. Dodds
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.