135 W. Va. 361 - Park v. Landfried’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1995
12 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 Brazie v. Fayette County Commissioners · 127 W. Va. 35 - State Ex Rel. Daugherty v. County Court of Lincoln County · Poteet v. County Commissioners · 129 W. Va. 584 - State Ex Rel. Fanning v. County Court of Mercer County · 124 W. Va. 654 - Funkhouser v. Landfried
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If we were to hold that in a school levy election, under Code, 11-8-16, 17, that Code, 3-5-33, precludes persons who are only taxpayers, residents, citizens and voters of a county from demanding a recount, there would be a serious question whether a contest would be available to such persons, and, as under the holding of this Court in Brazie v. [Fayette County] Commissioners, supra [ 25 W.Va. 213 ], a canvassing board has no power to go behind the returns to inquire as to fraud and illegality in an election not appearing on the face of the returns, fraud in an election would go unchallenged, and the result declared solely on the basis of the return, no matter how grossly tainted with fraud is the election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The high public interests involved in the immediate question prompt us to apply the reference provisions contained in Code, 11-8-17, and hold, as we do, * * *, that notwithstanding Code, 3-5-33, which expressly gives only to a candidate voted for the right to a recount, that the instant relators were entitled to the recount, which the board of canvassers made under the coercion of the circuit court's writ of mandamus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“After canvassing the returns of the election, the board shall, upon the demand of any candidate voted for at such election, open and examine any one or more of the sealed packages of ballots, and recount the same;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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