Willis v. Crumbly’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2022
15 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 State ex rel. Robinson v. Craighead County Board of Election Commissioners · Clemmons v. Office of Child Support Enforcement · Womack v. Foster · Tate-Smith v. Cupples · Pederson v. Stracener
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“), to oust Crumbly, or, alternatively, to void the runoff election and hold a special runoff election. In the petition, Willis, among other things, challenged the validity of certain votes and alleged voter fraud on behalf of Crumbly's supporters during the course of the election. On motion by Crumbly, the circuit judge dismissed Willis's complaint, ruling that the office of state senator is a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.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.