State ex rel. Williams v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Christy v. Summit County Board of Elections (1996), Jurcisin v. Cuyahoga County Board of Elections (1988)
34 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. Taylor v. Glasser · State ex rel. Foreman v. Brown · 136 Ohio St. 343 - State Ex Rel. Skinner Engine Co. v. Kouri · State ex rel. Riley Construction Co. v. East Liverpool City School District Board of Education · 127 Ohio St. 95 - State Ex Rel. Patton v. Myers
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * on the basis of some mere technical irregularities which will not interfere with that right and disenfranchise the voters of the choice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.