133 W. Va. 463 - Evans v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably 133 W. Va. 557 - City of Mullens v. Davidson (1949), 151 W. Va. 113 - State Ex Rel. Brewer v. Wilson (1966)
46 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 Dryden v. Swinburn · State ex rel. Thompson v. McAllister · 129 W. Va. 851 - Ross v. Midelburg · Halstead v. Rader · Mann 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]akes the county court the sole judge of such contests. The Constitution, (article 4, § 11) says that the legislature shall prescribe the manner of determining contested elections; and in [this chapter] (Chapter 3, West Virginia Code) the legislature has given sole and exclusive jurisdiction to the county court to try contested elections for county offices, and it could not have committed it to other hands than the county court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The system of elections in this State is not of common law origin; and the exercise of the right of suffrage is regulated and controlled by constitutional and statutory provisions. State ex rel. Robertson v. County Court of Kanawha County, [131] W.Va. [521], 48 S.E. 2d 345 . The manner of conducting elections in this State is governed by statutes and the power of the Legislature to deal with elections is plenary except to the extent that it is limited by the provisions of the Constitution of this State or of the Constitution of the United States. State ex rel. Forsythe v. County Court of Cabell County, [131] W.Va. [570], 48 S.E.2d 412 ; Halstead v. Rader, 27 W.Va. 806 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson v. Bower“object to * * * the qualification of the person returned as elected”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slater v. Varney
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.