In Re Francis’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2024
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin))
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. Packer · American Party of Texas v. White · Brock v. Pierce County · In Re Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Texas Foundaries, Inc. v. International Molders & Foundry Workers Union
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.
“The public interest is best served when public offices are decided by fair and vigorous elections, not technicalities leading to default.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Stalder“If an application is accompanied by a petition, the petition is considered part of the application”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Angelini“would contravene express requirements and impair the purpose of the Election Code.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. In Re Angelini
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.