Meagher v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 1994
17 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 Poyntz v. Shackelford · Western & Southern Life Ins. v. Quinn · Wooton v. Wheeler · Toney v. Harris · Commonwealth v. Combs
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘£ The entire proceeding of filling a vacancy contemplates (1) a vacancy; (2) the issuing of a writ of election for a specific date; and (3) nominations of candidates to be voted for, in the order given. Any other view would be an unusual and strained construction, never contemplated by the makers of our election laws. ££ Evidently the purpose of the party law, and all similar provisions, is to require the selection of candidates to be made within a reasonable .time before the election. “These provisions, when taken in connection with the fact that an election cannot be held to fill this vacancy unless and until it be called by the Governor, make it plain that it was never intended, either by the primary law or by the Democratic party law, that a nomination to fill a vacancy should or could be made before the special election was called. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““When a vacancy happens in either branch of the general assembly during its session, the presiding officer of the house in which the vacancy occurs shall issue the writ of election; if the general assembly is not in session, the writ shall be issued by the governor. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is well settled in this state that a. court of equity has- jurisdiction, • not -only to preserve the rights which. an officer has in his office, but also that it will protect the rights’ which a candidate has in his nomination for an office.”'”
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.