McKenzie v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1995
12 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 Hayes v. Abney · May v. Young · Omar v. West
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant, McKenzie, contested the nomination of appellee, Thompson, as the Democratic nominee for sheriff of Forrest County. The Democratic executive committee of the county declared Thompson nominated. McKenzie instituted proceedings under the Corrupt Practices Act (Chapter 19, Laws of 1935, Ex.Sess.) to contest the nomination before the special court provided for in that act. The trial resulted in the judgment of that court declaring Thompson the nominee. From that judgment, McKenzie appeals. The only question is whether McKenzie was entitled to contest Thompson's nomination upon the ground alone that he was not a qualified elector of the county. Thompson's position is that his qualifications for the office are not involved in a proceeding of this character. We so hold and reach that conclusion upon the following considerations: The special tribunal set up by the Corrupt Practices Act has no authority to go beyond ascertaining the will of the qualified electors participating in the party primary. To that end, it has the authority and duty to determine whether those voting or offering to vote are qualified electors and entitled to vote, and whether in all substantial respects the election was fairly and honestly held in compliance with the various provisions of the law. Hayes v. Abney (Miss.) [ 186 Miss. 208 ], 188 So. 533 [(1939)]. We think by analogy this question was governed by the principles applicable to contests between candidates in a general election. It is a publi”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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