Thomas v. Groebl’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Helena Chemical Co. v. Wilkins (2001), Barshop v. Medina County Underground Water Conservation District (1996)
76 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 W.D. Yett, Mayor v. Cook · Hess & Skinner Engineering Co. v. Turney · Fire Ass'n of Philadelphia v. Love · City of Tyler v. Texas Employers' Ins. Ass'n · Norman v. Thompson
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to vote is so fundamental in our form of government that it should be as zealously safeguarded as are our natural rights. It has been said that ‘laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.’ It is sufficient, however, that we apply here the less extreme and well established rule of construction that statutes regulating the right to vote should be given a liberal interpretation in favor of that right.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““These poll lists occupy an important place in our election machinery. The statutes requiring the tax collectors to compile and the presiding judges at the elections to obtain and have at the polling places lists of the voters have been held mandatory, and an election governed by the general election statutes is not valid unless a poll list is prepared and furnished to the election officials. Arts. 2975 and 2993, R.S.; Yett v. Cook supra [ 115 Tex. 205 , 281 S.W. 837 ]. Manifestly, it is of the greatest importance that these lists be as current and complete as the circumstances mil admit.’’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““f “Those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given with a view merely to the proper, orderly and prompt conduct of the business, and by the failure to obey the rights of those interested will not be prejudiced, are not commonly to be regarded as mandatory; and if the act is performed, but not in the time or in the precise mode indicated, it will still be sufficient, if that which is done accomplishes the substantial purpose of the statute.” ’”
2 later decisions 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.