Turner v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1974
22 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 Williams v. Castleman · Ewing v. State Ex Rel. Pollard · 53 Tex. Civ. App. 306 - McCormick v. Jester · Scarbrough v. Eubank · State ex rel. Goodnight v. Goowin
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In an election contest in the district court, under the statutory provisions of this state, the authority and- jurisdiction of the court is limited and confined in the inquiry to matters happening on the day of election, and pertaining strictly to 'the election, such as the casting and counting of the ballots, and the actions and conduct of the officers holding.the election. The contestant must succeed or fail according to the result of the inquiry touching such matters only. Articles 3062 and 3063, Revised Statutes; Canales v. Mullin (Tex. Civ. App.) 185 S. W. 420 ; Cofield v. Britton. (Tex. Civ. App.) 109 S. W. 493 ; Bassel v. Shanklin (Tex. Civ. App.) 183 S. W. 105 ; Norman v. Thompson, 96 Tex. 250 , 72 S. W. 63 ; Lowery v. Briggs (Tex. Civ. App.) 73 S. W. 1062 ; Kilgore v. Jackson, 55 Tex. Civ. App. 99 , 118 S. W. 819, 823 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ladd v. Yett
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.