Halstead v. Rader’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1986 · most notably 132 W. Va. 580 - State Ex Rel. Bumgardner v. Mills (1949), 133 W. Va. 463 - Evans v. Charles (1949)
29 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 Brazie v. Fayette County Commissioners · Dryden v. Swinburn · State v. Miller · Hudson v. Solomon · Chenowith v. Commissioners of Randolph County
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Dryden v. Swinburn, 15 W.Va. 234 , this Court decided that, in a case in which the contest was the want of qualification in the person declared elected to hold the office, it was only necessary to set forth the facts in the notice which showed such disqualification, and that the statute in such case did not require the notice to show that the contestant was entitled to the office, * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Slater v. Varney“This provision is mandatory and plenary, and requires the legislature to prescribe all reasonable laws deemed necessary or proper for the prevention of fraud, securing the purity of elections and ascertaining the results.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The legislature ... shall pass such laws as may be necessary and proper to prevent ... corruption and fraud in voting....”
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.