McBeath v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 1980
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cline v. Niblo · Freeman v. Freeman · Dickson v. Strickland · Clary v. Hurst · Ellis v. Vanderslice
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . .A suit is an election contest when the validity of a local option election, or the correct ascertainment of the result thereof, is its subject matter. . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peek v. Harvey
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.