Walker v. Sliger’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1991
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Skelton v. Barnett · Freeman v. Felts · Maloney v. Collier · Heiskell v. Lowe · Hollis v. State ex rel. Vaughan
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... It is not controverted that this case presents an election contest, of which the circuit court of Knox county had jurisdiction, and which the petitioner, J.L. Lowe, as a citizen, voter, and taxpayer of the municipality of Knoxville, had the right to bring and maintain, provided his contention was supported by the facts, which are not controverted; the case being before us upon petition and demurrer, and sound in law. These propositions are abundantly established by the repeated decisions of this court.” (Citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e find the law of this State to be a private citizen who seeks no relief for himself cannot contest an election solely on the ground he seeks to redress a public wrong. Such a suit is in the nature of a quo warranto proceeding and must be filed in the name of the State. An election contest for the sole purpose of having an election declared void may be filed by either an incumbent, the inducting court, or the unsuccessful candidate, [citations omitted.] Id. at 474.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilpatrick v. Reneau
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.