Meredith v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 1994
4 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 · Lewis v. Harris · Ward v. Bond
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"provided that in ANY PRECINCT in which there may be a city of 8,000 or more inhabitants, there SHALL be elected two Justices of the Peace", (Emphasis added)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"We cannot escape the import of the use of the term `for the convenience of the people' in Sec. 18, supra; 16 C.J.S., Constitutional Law, § 23. The latitude so granted the Commissioners' Court to create not less than four and not more than eight such precincts, and the power to change the boundaries of such precincts from time to time emphasizes the intent to vest discretionary powers in the Commissioners' Court in determining whether or not the creation of such additional court would be for the convenience of the people, that is suitable, appropriate or advisable to meet the needs of the people. This discretionary power on the part of the Commissioners' Court is fully recognized in Williams v. Castleman, 112 Tex. 193 , 247 S.W. 263 , by our Supreme Court, which involved an affirmative act of the Commissioners' Court in creating such an additional Justice Court, and in the holdings in Lewis v. Harris, Tex.Civ. App., 48 S.W.2d 730 , and Ward v. Bond, Tex.Civ.App., 10 S.W.2d 590, 594 , which dealt with the discretionary powers of a Commissioners' Court as related to the latter clause of Sec. 18, supra, in altering a Commissioners' Precinct. "`Mandamus will not lie to control or review the action of an official or board upon matters involving the exercise of discretion or judgment confided to such official or board.' Lewis v. Harris, supra, 48 S.W.2d at page 732 ; 28 T. J. (Mandamus), Sec. 33."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Each organized county in the State now or hereafter existing, SHALL be divided from time to time, for the convenience of the people ", into precincts, not less than four and not more than eight. Divisions SHALL be made by the Commissioners Court provided for by this Constitution. In each such precinct there SHALL be elected one Justice of the Peace and one Constable, each of whom SHALL hold his office for four years and until his successor SHALL be elected and qualified; * * *" Emphasis added.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grant v. Ammerman
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.