Turner v. Lewie’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Wright v. Board of Trustees of Tatum Independent School District (1975), Christy v. Williams (1956)
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 Dickson v. Strickland · Countz v. Mitchell · Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Tolbert · Reynolds Land & Cattle Co. v. McCabe · Coffee v. Lieb
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.
“The proceedings of the election, and those leading up to it, must themselves give sufficient notice regarding the election and its purposes. It is not enough that some or even all of the voters learned of the election through reading news items, or by conversations with other citizens, or by hearing of it through any means other than the notices required to be given by the statutes regulating the election. If there is not a substantial compliance with the law in the proceedings leading up to the election, there is no valid election. The will of the majority of the voters might be expressed in any number of ways, as in a mass meeting, or by petition, and yet not amount to an election. Our system of government depends for its existence on orderly elections, held strictly in accordance with the law, and surrounded by all of the safeguards which the lawmakers have seen fit to impose. It is important that the voters receive legal notice of the election and the purposes for which it is to be held.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chumney v. Craig““An election contest necessarily involves questions of both fact and law. It may be predicated upon a status or upon facts which existed before an election, upon what took place at the election, and perhaps in some instances upon a status or what took place after an election. . “ . . .In determining what a ‘contested election’ is, we must bear in mind that an election in this state is not a single event, but a process, and that the entire process is subject to contest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Official Ballot Gainesville, Texas Friday, November 29, 1946 For Amendment No. I Against Amendment No. I For Amendment No. II Against Amendment No. II For Amendment No. Ill Against Amendment No. Ill ‘ For Amendment No. IV Against Amendment No. IV For Amendment No. V Against Amendment No. V For Amendment No. VI Against Amendment No. VI For Amendment No. VII Against Amendment No. VII For Amendment No. VIII Against Amendment No. VIIF”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. England v. McCoy
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.