Williamson v. State Election Board’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2019
9 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. Cloud v. State Election Board · Wickersham v. State Election Board · Sparks v. State Election Board
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Having determined that it is not possible under the record before us to determine with mathematical certainty which candidate received the majority of the votes cast in the Senatorial Election under consideration, ... Williamson's application for Writ of Mandamus directing the State Election Board to certify him as being the duly elected candidate to the office of State Senator, Senatorial District No. 36, Tulsa County, and to issue him a Certificate of Election, is accordingly denied."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"We have examined the entire returns as reflected by the `Findings' and `Transcript of the Proceedings of the Tulsa County Election Board', and have analyzed the votes received by all the candidates on machine `A' and can only conclude that it is highly probable that Williamson received the majority of all the votes cast in the Senate race, which includes the 94 `unaccounted for' votes."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalty as each House may provide. (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.