126 W. Va. 568 - Nelson v. Nash’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Tijerina v. Baker (1968), 127 W. Va. 103 - Brannon v. Perkey (1944)
41 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 McQuiston's Adoption · English v. Dickey · Bladen v. Philadelphia · 122 W. Va. 463 - Beacom v. Board of Canvassers · Stafford v. County Court
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Evaluation of the foregoing statutes enacted in furtherance of the public policy above mentioned brings the legislative intent in to bold relief: that an election result should be determined and declared with dispatch. The hearing and determination of an election contest is the last proceeding by which the object of the legislature is attained, and the statutory provision here considered is an overall limitation of the entire process of making returns of election, canvassing thereof, recounting the ballots cast, and contesting the result.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“That part of Code, 3-9-3, [now 3-7-7] which prohibits a continuance of the hearing of an election contest beyond three months from the day of election, limits the jurisdiction of the county court; and an agreement between the contestant and the contestee that such continuance may be had neither extends nor restores the authority and power of the county court once they are lost by lapse of time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * shall, in all cases of contest, judge of the election, qualification and returns of their own members, and of all county and district officers, subject to such regulations, by appeal or otherwise, as may be prescribed by law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.