Tate-Smith v. Cupples’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Kinchen v. Wilkins (2006), In Re Interest of Tyler F. (2008)
32 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 Ghegan & Ghegan, Inc. v. Barclay · Lee v. Daniel · Files v. Hill · Womack v. Foster · Selph v. State
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The purpose of election contests is to aid the democratic processes upon which our system of government is based by providing a ready remedy whereby compliance with election laws may be assured to facilitate, not hinder by technical requirements, the quick initiation and disposition of such contests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]t a minimum, the complaint for affirmative relief must include the number of votes received by each candidate, so that it appears, after subtracting the alleged invalid votes, that the claimant has more votes than his opponent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willis v. Crumbly“a strict observance of statutory requirements is essential to the exercise of jurisdiction by the court, as it is desirable that election results have a degree of stability and finality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.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.