Parker v. Nobles’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 2013
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Goldberg v. Kelly · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · 21 Tex. Civ. App. 622 - Maddox v. York · Maddox v. York · Davies v. Stiff
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) If a nominee dies ... before the election,... his name shall be printed on the ballot and the votes cast for him shall be counted and return made thereof; and, if he shall have received a plurality of the votes cast for the office, the vacancy shall be filled as in the case of a vacancy occurring after the election. Act of June 18, 1967, Chapter 723 § 32, 1969 Tex.Gen.Laws, 1858, 1901, after several amendments repealed by act of May 11, 1985, Chapter 211 § 9, 1985 Tex.Gen. Laws 1076. (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rice v. English“[e]xcept as provided in § 104 [article 8.22] of this Code, no ineligible candidate shall ever have his name placed upon the ballot at any ... general ... election. No ineligible candidate shall ever be voted upon nor have votes counted for him at any such ... general ... election for the purpose of ... electing him, but votes cast for an ineligible candidate shall be taken into account in determining whether any other candidate received the necessary vote for... election....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rice v. English“No person shall be eligible to be a candidate for, ... any public office in this state unless he is a citizen of the United States eligible to hold such office under the Constitution and laws of this state....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rice v. English
How this case has been treated — in progress
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