Lyttle v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1971
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 Scholl v. Bell · Pratt v. Breckinridge · Craft v. Davidson · Ratliff v. Tackett · Kluemper v. Zimmer
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.
““It is stated in one of the briefs filed for appellants that the city council * * * has never by ordinance, provided for the hearing of contested election cases or any other method of procedure. Our examination of the record fails to disclose that it sheds any light on that subject. If that fact were made to appear in such a way that we could take cognizance of it, that does not seem to the court to be sufficient to confer jurisdiction upon the circuit court. Upon the filing of the contests before it — the only tribunal vested with authority to hear and determine them — the city council might then have enacted an ordinance prescribing the procedure for the hearing and determination of these contests.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. Randolph
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.