McCastlain v. Elmore’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2025
18 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 Matter of Adoption of Martindale · Womack v. Foster · Jones v. Etheridge · Jenkins v. Bogard · King v. Whitfield
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a complaint fails to allege sufficient facts to state a cause of action in an election contest, it may not be subsequently amended by pointing to facts outside the complaint after the time for contesting the election has expired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Willis v. Crumbly
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.