Carter v. Tomlinson’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1998
21 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 Stanford v. Butler · Love v. Wilcox · Koy v. Schneider · Koy v. Schneider · 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The rule is well settled in this State that the contest of an election, lacking the elements of a civil suit, is a political rather than a judicial question, and the courts under their general powers, legal and equitable, have no jurisdiction of such a controversy. * * *” Carter v. Tomlinson, 149 Tex. 7 , 227 S.W.2d 795, 799 (1950).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * ‘Except to the extent that jurisdiction is conferred by statute or that the subject has been regulated by statute, the courts have no power to interfere with the judgments of the constituted authorities of established political parties in matters involving party government and discipline, to determine disputes within a political party as to the regularity of the election of its executive officers, or their removal, or to determine contests for the position of party committeemen or convention delegates.’ 29 C.J.S., Elections, § 88, pp. 121-122.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dick v. Kazen““And it is held that officers of a political party, such as chairmen of the County Executive Committees and precinct committeemen, although provided for by election laws, are not regarded as public or governmental officers. Koy v. Schneider, 110 Tex. 369 , 218 S.W. 479 , 221 S.W. 880 ; Waples v. Marrast, 108 Tex. 5 , 184 S.W. 180 , L.R.A.1917A, 253; Walker v. Mobley, 101 Tex. 28 , 103 S.W. 490 ; McCombs v. Stevenson, Tex.Civ.App., 195 S.W.2d 566 ; Walker v. Hopping, Tex.Civ.App., 226 S.W. 146 ; 16 Tex.Jur., pp. 56-59, § 47-49.””
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.