Coleman v. Hallum’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1966
10 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 Sumner v. Crawford · Ewing v. Duncan · 37 Tex. Crim. 167 - Chapman v. State · 39 Tex. Crim. 529 - McElroy v. State · 44 Tex. Crim. 270 - Robertson v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The object of the provision of this article was to require prompt action by the commissioner’s court in calling such' elections. The language employed is not a limitation upon the power of the court to call such elections at the term at which the petition therefor is .filed; it is but a direction to the commissioner’s court to call the election prayed for at the next succeeding term of the court after the filing of the petition. The Legislature was aware, of course, that in many' instances petitions would be filed after the adjournment of the terms of the court, and that no action could be taken thereon during vacation. With the view to prevent the commissioner’s court from postponing from term to term the ordering 'of elections, when properly petitioned to do so, this statute was passed. No intention contrary to this is manifest by the act. It is not susceptible of the construction that the Legislature intended to prevent the ordering of an election at the same term at which the petition was filed.” It then recalls that it is in conflict with Robertson v. State, supra, which it does not feel constrained to follow.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.