Baxter v. Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1931
11 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.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This section has no meaning unless the contestant is required to give notice within five days after the election commissioners canvass the returns and give the election certificate. And in the notice he should, at least, fix a day not earlier than three, nor more than ten days thereafter for tlie contestee to appear, and answer and defend. This is clearly expressed in the section and cannot be construed in any other way and give meaning to- the language used. The notice in this case did not fix any particular day uñthin the three and ten days fixed in the statute for the contestee to appear and answer and defend. In our opinion the statute is mandatory in this regard at least, and the court was right in dismissing the contest and awarding the nomination to contestee.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Layne v. Owsley · Leabow v. Jones
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.