Watts v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1969
8 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 Wallbrecht v. Ingram · Marilla v. Ratterman · Taylor v. Nuetzel · Muncy v. Duff · Land v. Land
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The number of illegal votes cast in Sinai precinct was not 20 per cent, of the total cast, and the rule adopted by this court that the entire vote of a precinct will be thrown out where it is shown that more than 20 per cent, of the votes were illegal, and it cannot he determined for whom they were cast does not apply, but it is argued that, where it appears that illegal votes have been, cast in an election sufficient in number to change the result, and it is impossible to ascertain the number of illegal votes cast for each candidate, the votes of the entire precinct where any illegal votes were cast should be disregarded. The rule contended for has never been applied except under the provisions of section 1596cir-12, Kentucky Statutes,” (now KRS 122.-080(4), heretofore partially quoted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Napier v. Noplis
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.