129 W. Va. 284 - Irons v. Fry’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1991
18 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 128 W. Va. 290 - Sutton v. Sutton · Dryden v. Swinburn
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases of contested elections, the county court shall be the judge of the election, qualifications and returns of . . . all county . . . officers. (Emphasis supplied). “A person intending to contest the election of another to any county . . . office ... to be filled by the voters of the county . . . , shall, within ten days after the result of the election is declared, give the contestee notice in writing of such intention, and a list of the votes he will dispute, with the objections to each, and of the votes rejected for which he will contend. If the contestant object to the legality of the election, . . . , the notice shall set forth the facts on which such objection is founded.” (Emphasis supplied).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * That with respect to nominations of commissioners of county courts, no two of such commissioners shall be nominated as the party candidates from the same magisterial district where more than one such commissioner is to be so nominated at any primary election * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“So, we think that under the Dryden case and Code, 3-4-25 [now 3-5-20] which provides that the procedure in a contest for a nomination purported to have been made at a primary election `shall be the same as that governing the contest of a general election by candidates for county offices', the Dryden case is in point with the case at bar and contestant's notice is defective * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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