May v. Layton’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2005
21 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 · Briggs v. Gautier · Chinn v. Cousins
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Hence the result of excluding such a large proportion of the total votes cast in the district is to make it impossible for one to reasonably say that the result arrived at by the Special Tribunal represented the will of the voters, because the votes of more than one-third of the voters of that district were held void for failure to comply with mandatory provisions of the statutes .... “. . . it is manifest that these above-stated failures to comply with the mandatory provisions of the statutes require that practically all of the votes in all four of the boxes in question must be held void. “As was said in Briggs v. Gautier, 1943, 195 Miss. 472, 485 , 15 So. 2d 209 , where there is a total departure from the mandatory provisions of the statute, and it is not possible to ascertain the will of the electors, because a substantial portion of the votes were void, a new election should be ordered for the purpose of ascertaining the voter’s choice. See also Chinn v. Cousins, 1946, 201 Miss. 1 , 27 So. 2d 882 ; Code Sec. 3167.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ulmer v. Currie
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.