Murphy v. Darnell’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1989
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 State Ex Rel. West, Atty. Gen. v. Breckinridge · Stafford v. State Election Board · Darst v. County Election Board of Craig County · Meyer v. Jones · State Ex Rel. King v. Payton
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The exclusive method to challenge, question or object to the ‘legality or regularity of a notification and declaration’ is provided by 26 O.S.1951 § 165a. The action of the County Election Board in placing the applicant’s name on the ballot as a candidate for the office is in the nature of a judgment of that body in its semi-judicial capacity and that judgment cannot be collaterally attacked. Any person desiring to raise the question of eligibility of a proposed candidate may do so under the provisions of said statute. Not having done so, he cannot, thereafter, question that final decision of the board.””
2 later decisions 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.