134 W. Va. 456 - Pridemore v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 2016
8 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 133 W. Va. 463 - Evans v. Charles · Poteet v. County Commissioners · Welch v. County Court of Wetzel County · Brown v. Randolph County Court · 124 W. Va. 700 - State Ex Rel. Revercomb v. Sizemore
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]rregularities in the conduct of an election, even though they constitute a violation of the election laws, not shown to have affected its result, will not vitiate an election in the absence of a showing of fraud or misconduct preventing the free expression of the will of the voters.”
2 later decisions 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.