Wheeler v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2003
12 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 McClendon v. McKeown · Cain v. McGregor
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no allegation either that these challenged votes were cast for the appellee [contestee] or that the result of the election would be changed if these votes were set aside. All that the complaint really asks is that the questioned ballots be declared void and that the remaining ballots then be counted to see who actually won the election. “We have often held that a complaint such as this one does not state a cause of action. Several of these cases were reviewed in McClendon v. McKeown, 230 Ark. 521 , 323 S.W.2d 542 (1959). Under these decisions the contestant, to state a cause of action, must show that the outcome of the election would be changed if certain identified illegal votes cast for his opponent were disregarded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heth v. Armijo““Neither statute [primary or general election] purports to define the allegations that a contestant must make to state a cause of action. The rule followed in our earlier opinions is not of statutory origin. It is merely an example of the basic principle that a complaint, to be good against demurrer, must state facts constituting a cause of action. It is the absence of such facts that makes the present complaint fatally deficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heth v. Armijo“As we have seen, this complaint did not state a cause of action. To allow it to be amended in such a way as to state a cause of action would, in effect, permit the plaintiff to assert, for the first time, his cause of action after the expiration of the twenty days. Such an amendment is not permissible. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Whitfield
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.