Storey v. Looney’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably Files v. Hill (1980), Taaffe v. Sanderson (1927)
29 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 Walls v. Brundidge · Ferguson v. Montgomery · McLain v. Fish
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““'We decided in the case of McLain v. Fish, 159 Ark. 199 , 251 S. W. 686 , that the provisions of the statute quoted above (§ 3777, C. & M. Digest), are mandatory, and that, in the contest of an election, where a list was published as required by statute, the qualifications, of voters not on the list must be proved in accordance with the statute, or be excluded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Nisler“on any candidate to contest the certificate of nomination or the certification of vote as made by the county central committee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tumey v. Daniels
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.