Marks v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1981
16 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 53 Tex. Civ. App. 306 - McCormick v. Jester · Ashford v. Goodwin · Lipscomb v. Perry · Hill v. Smithville Independent School Dist. · Bailey v. Fly
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In an election-contest, the burden is on the contestants to allege and prove either that a different result should have been reached by counting or not counting certain specified votes; or that the irregularities in the conduct of it were such as to render it impossible to determine the true will of the majority of the voters participating in the election; and irregularities in the conduct of the election, which cannot be demonstrated to have materially affected the result, are immaterial.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““When an election is held by any county, or any number of counties, or any political subdivision of the State, or any political subdivision of a county or any defined district now or hereafter to be described and defined within the State, and which may or may not include towns, villages or municipal corporations, or any city, town or village, for the purpose of issuing bonds or otherwise lending credit, or expending money or assuming any debt, only qualified electors who own taxable property in the State, county, political subdivision, district, city, town or village where such election is held, and who have duly rendered the same for taxation shall be qualified to vote and all electors shall vote in the election precinct of their residence. Acts 1951, 52nd Leg., p. 1097, ch. 492, art. 35.” (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rouw v. Harrington
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.