Douglas v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 2008
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rowe v. Allison · Phillips v. Rothrock · Seubold v. Fort Smith Special School District · Rich v. Walker · Arkansas-Missouri Power Corp. v. City of Rector
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]lections will not be invalidated for alleged wrongs committed unless said wrongs were such to render the result doubtful. In order to destroy the result of an election it must be shown that wrongs against the freedom of election have prevailed, not slightly and in individual cases, but generally and to the extent to rendering the result doubtful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitley v. Cranford
How this case has been treated — in progress
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