Countz v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Turner v. Lewie (1947), Honts v. Shaw (1998)
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.
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Was the election void under Articles 2922a and 2922c because the trustees of Common School District No. 2 did not consent to the proposed annexation of that district to the Huntsville Independent School District for the purpose of forming, with the other districts * * * a rural high school district?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[W]here the election is a special one, to be called and the time and place fixed by some authority, it is essential to the validity thereof that it be called or ordered by the very authority designated by law and none other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.