Wells v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2008
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 Harrison v. Stroud · Muncy v. Duff · Allen v. Griffith · Butler v. Roberson · Napier v. Noplis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case at bar there was no showing of intentional fraud, nor was there any intimidation, bribery, or violence proven in the conduct of the election, nevertheless, since the illegal votes secretly cast were so substantial in number and since it cannot be determined for whom they were cast, the election affecting the county judge’s and coroner’s races is held void under the authority of Harrison v. Stroud, supra. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Kirby““* * * However, it is equally contrary to orderly judicial process to indulge in mere speculation in an effort to guess which candidate received the majority of legal votes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Kirby
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.