127 W. Va. 103 - Brannon v. Perkey’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 1990 · most notably 148 W. Va. 776 - Delardas v. Morgantown Water Commission (1964), 134 W. Va. 867 - Simms v. County Court of Kanawha County (1950)
2 district · 35 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 Sanner v. Patton · Booten v. Pinson · 126 W. Va. 568 - Nelson v. Nash · 78 W. Va. 749 - Boyland v. City of Parkersburg · 105 W. Va. 235 - Pardue 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is further provided: ‘If the voter desires to vote for any person whose name does not appear on the ticket, he may substitute the name by writing it with a black [lead] pencil or other means in the proper place and making a cross mark in the blank space at the left of the name so written.’ Code, 3-5-19, as amended. The statutory provision just quoted is a legislative recognition of the right of a voter to select some person other than those nominated for office and whose name is not printed on the ballot. It is unnecessary to the validity of a vote cast that a cross mark appear in the space to the left of the name so written.” 31 S.E.2d at 901 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Pate“No statutory provision relative to general elections has been found which indicates a legislative purpose to require a voter to cast his ballot for persons regularly nominated by primary election or other statutory method. It is our thought that a voter should be left free and untrammeled in selecting a person for whom he casts his vote, and no expression contrary to that position is found in the organic or statutory provisions now in effect in this jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MacCorkle v. Hechler“We conclude that a legal voter may cast a ballot for any qualified and eligible person by writing the name of such person on the official ballot at such place and in a manner that the intention of the voter is indicated as to the person and office for which the vote is cast.”
1 later decision 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.