Koy v. Schneider’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
3 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2016 · most notably Nixon v. Herndon (1927), Woodward v. Ortiz (1951)
3 district · 58 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 State ex rel. Labauve v. Michel · Ashford v. Goodwin · Kelso v. Cook
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he process, or the art, of determining the sense, real meaning, or proper explanation of obscure or ambiguous terms or provisions in a statute, written instrument, or oral agreement, or the application of such subject to the case in question, by reasoning in the light derived from extraneous connected circumstances or laws or writings bearing upon the same or a connected matter, or by seeking and applying the probable aim and purpose of the provision. Koy v. Schneider, 110 Tex. 369 , 221 S.Q[W]. 880, 884. [Black’s Law Dictionary, Revised 4th Ed., p. 386.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A political party is nothing more' or less than a body of men associated for the purpose of furnishing and maintaining the prevalence of certain political principles or beliefs in the public policies of the government. As rivals for popular favor they strive at the general elections for the control of the agencies of the government as the means of providing a course for the government in accord with their political principles and the administration of those agencies by their own adherents. * * * • But the fact remains that the objects of political organizations are intimate to those who compose them. They do not concern the general public. * * * They perform no governmental function. They constitute no governmental agency. The purpose of their primary elections is merely to enable them to furnish their nominees as candidates for the popular suffrage. * * * To provide nominees of political parties'for the people to vote upon in the general elections is not the business of the State. * * • * Political parties are political instrumentalities. They are in no sense governmental instrumentalities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nixon v. Condon
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.