Coffee v. Lieb’s Empirical Analysis

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17 state decisions

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We think the principles discussed in the opinion by Judge Leddy in Countz v. Mitchell, 120 Tex. 324 , 38 S.W.2d 770 , 773, are decisive. This opinion having the approval of the Supreme Court recognizes the existence of jurisdictional requisites to the validity of special elections. It is an authority against the contention that the final and conclusive test of the validity of such an election is that the qualified voters have in fact had full and fair opportunity to express their choice in the election.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Florey Common School Dist. No. 5 v. County Board of School Trustees

2. “'Where, as is usually the case in special elections, the time and place for holding the same are not fixed by law but are to be fixed by some authority named in the statute after the happening of a condition precedent, the statutes as to giving notice thereof are considered mandatory, and a failure to give notice or issue proclamation of such an election will render it a nullity.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chumney v. Craig

3. ““Therefore, ‘In all popular forms of government the power of a majority to bind the minority by a popular vote depends upon the fact that the elections are held by virtue of some legal authority, and an election held without affirmative constitutional or statutory authority is universally recognized as being a nullity.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Royalty v. Nicholson