McChesney's Contested Election’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2018
8 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 Moritz's Contested Election · Knoxville School District Election · Mayo's Appeal · Burns's Contested Election · Ferguson's Appeal
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a petition to contest an election ... shall be presented to the court, it shall be the duty of said petitioners, within ten days thereafter, to file a bond signed by at least five of the said petitioners in such sum as the said court ... shall designate, with sureties, to be approved by the said court or judge, conditioned for the payment of all costs ... and if the said bond shall not be filed, as herein provided, the said petition to contest the election shall be dismissed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The filing of a bond which conforms to the requirements of the Act of Assembly and within the time prescribed is a condition precedent not only of the petitioners' right to proceed with the election contest, but also of the court's jurisdiction to hear and determine the contest. In our opinion, the bond here filed was irregular, and the court below had no alternative but to dismiss the petition.”
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.