Currie v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1973
3 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 Gilmore v. Waples · Texas Reciprocal Insurance v. Leger · Kearns v. Howley · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Koontz v. Dunkle · Galley v. Hedrick
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the very outset we must decide if this cause presents a justiciable matter for the courts, or if the Legislature has taken such jurisdiction away from the courts and lodged the jurisdiction over contests of this character solely within the party convention and other party machinery. * * ⅜ * * * “Article 3146 was one of the articles amended, and it now provides that all contests shall be decided within the political party, ‘except for a place on party tickets for public elective offices’. When Articles 3107 and 3146 are construed together, the conclusion is inescapable that respondents were not seeking places on the party tickets for public elective offices, and the action of the convention was final. The rule is well settled in this State that the contest of an election, lacking the elements of a civil suit, is a political rather than a judicial question, and the courts under their general powers, legal and equitable, have no jurisdiction of such controversy. 16 Tex. Jur. p. 135, § 111. “The District Court did not have jurisdiction to try the matters alleged by respondents relating to the political offices they sought to retain, nor did it have jurisdiction to issue the temporary injunction against petitioners; and the trial court and the Court of Civil Appeals erred in holding that it did have such jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Runyon v. Kent
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.