Ellis v. Hanks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . It shall be the duty of the county clerk to check the names of the signers of any such petition, and the voting precincts in which they reside to determine whether or not the signers of such petition were in fact qualified voters in such county, justice precinct, or incorporated city or town at the time such petition was issued, and to certify to the commissioners court the number of qualified voters signing such petition . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burke v. Hutcheson

2. ““. . . our Supreme Court in Manion v. Lockhart, 131 Tex. 175 , 114 S.W.2d 216, 219 (1938), said that the law is well settled that a writ of mandamus will not issue where the issuance of such writ would be fruitless or futile. More recently the same rule was reiterated in Parks v. Elliott, 465 S.W.2d 434 (Tex.Civ.App., Houston (14th Dist.) 1971).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burke v. Hutcheson