Leslie v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably Fulton v. Finch (1961), Pearson v. State (1958)
26 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 City of Dallas v. Dallas Consolidated Street Railway Co. · Williams v. Steele · Hunt v. O'Brien · State Ex Rel. Dunn v. Thompson · Gray v. Maddox
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . There cannot be found, either in the Constitution or in the statutes, any provision which gives any court, prior to the completion of the election, the authority to inquire as to the correctness or regularity of returns which have been made by the proper functionaries. It is understood by everyone, of course, that courts are clothed with the authority to enforce private rights; but no citizen, even though he be a candidate in the election, is given a private right to contest the returns made by the proper officials until after the election is completed. The instant case is essentially a proceeding having for its object a contest of the returns of an uncompleted election.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williamson v. Kempf“"The trial court, in hearing the complaint of the defendant in error, and in rendering judgment granting the relief it did, assumed powers which the court did not possess. The proceedings and the judgment rendered herein are void; and the Supreme Court has jurisdiction, on appeal, to declare them so, and to set them aside. Williams v. Steele, 101 Tex. 382 , 108 S.W. 155 ; Roy v. Whitaker, Tex.Civ.App., 50 S. W. 498 ; Gray v. Maddox, 5 Tex. 528 ; 3 Tex.Jur. p. 130."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pearson v. State“The making and canvassing of the returns, by the appointed functionaries, constitute an integral part of the election, without which the election would be incomplete; and the courts are powerless to control the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martinez v. Slagle
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.