Willis v. Potts’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2006
19 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 W.D. Yett, Mayor v. Cook · Texas National Guard Armory Board. v. McCraw · State ex rel. Young v. Robinson · Wood v. Miller · Attorney General ex rel. Moreland v. Common Council
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 19. Ineligibility of persons holding other offices Sec. 19. No judge of any court, Secretary of State, Attorney General, clerk of any court of record, or any person holding a lucrative office under the United States, or this State, or any foreign government shall during the term for which he is elected or appointed, be eligible to the Legislature.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Chapa v. Whittle · In Re Carlisle““Any constitutional or statutory provision which restricts the right to hold public office should be strictly construed against ineligibility.” Page 623.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitehead v. Julian
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.