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← 238 MISS 57 - Bowen v. Williams

Bowen v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

1960

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
3
states following
September 2012
most recently cited

9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2012

9 state decisions

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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 Westerman v. Mims · 83 So. 2d 717 - Ex Parte Morris · Walker v. Smith · May v. Layton · Ruhr v. Cowan

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Rev.St. 1911, art. 3096, requiring a participant in a primary to pledge support to the nominee, is not to be construed to prevent changes in party fealty unless the legislative intent to that effect is plain, since such construction would raise grave doubt as to the validity of the statute as an interference with privilege of free suffrage guaranteed by the Constitution. (Emphasis added). ( 238 Miss. at 62 , 117 So.2d at 712 ).”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners v. Meredith · 301 So. 2d 571 - MISS. ST. BD. OF ELECTION COM'RS v. Meredith
  2. “In the instant case the appellant, Bowen did not qualify as a candidate in the primaries, and, therefore, did not follow that method of getting his name on the ticket in the general election, but he did follow the provisions of Sec. 3260, Code of 1942, to become an independent candidate for the office to which he aspired. 238 Miss. at 61 , 117 So.2d at 711 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 301 So. 2d 571 - MISS. ST. BD. OF ELECTION COM'RS v. Meredith
  3. “not having been nominated by a political party,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 301 So. 2d 571 - MISS. ST. BD. OF ELECTION COM'RS v. Meredith

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.