Smith v. Hendrix’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2018
7 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 Willimon v. City of Greenville · Parker v. Brown · Harrison v. South Carolina Tax Commission · Pettigrew v. Bell
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Smith[ ] seeks a recount of the votes cast in an election in which he was a candidate contending that all votes should have been invalidated in instances where the voter [engaged in] ... 'crossover voting.' " 265 S.C. at 419 , 219 S.E.2d at 312 . We held, "It is clear ... the essence of petitioner's action is the contest of an election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“petitioner was precluded from asserting the present action because he failed to pursue the statutory remedy for protesting the result of an election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.