Pearson v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably 47 So. 2d 602 - Dade County v. Brigham (1950), 567 So. 2d 414 - Wadhams v. BOARD OF COUNTY COM'RS OF SARASOTA CTY. (1990)
39 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 Crawford v. Gilchrist · State Ex Rel. Landis v. Thompson · West v. State · Hall v. City of Madison · Tacker v. Board of County Commissioners
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The aggrieved party cannot await the outcome of the election and then assail preceding deficiencies which he might have complained of to the proper authorities before the election.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The duties required to be done leading up to the election, while in many respects may be mandatory, are in no respect a part of the election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“contained less than 25% of the qualified electors”
1 later decision 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.