McIver v. Starkey’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1974
5 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 Sewell v. Chambers · Meriwether v. Stanfield · Wilburn v. Galloway
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.
““On the contrary, it is our opinion that the trial judge is vested with wide discretion in determining all matters and things necessary or proper to the determination of such election contest, including the question as to whether the ends of justice seem to require the reopening of a ballot box in any given case, and upon appeal from his determination of the contest the trial court’s decision will not be disturbed on any questions decided unless a material abuse of discretion on his part is clearly shown by the record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Jones
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.