Deshazo v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Brown v. Todd (2001), Duncan v. Willis (1957)
37 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 Staples v. State Ex Rel. King · City of El Paso v. Ruckman · Maud, Tax Collector v. Terrell, Comptroller · Odell v. Wharton
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.
“the court had jurisdiction to go behind the returns and ascertain who was, in fact, lawfully elected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it became necessary for the plaintiff to trace his right or title thereto through an election”
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.