65 So. 2d 871 - Bowden v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2002
12 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. Labauve v. Michel · Kelso v. Cook · Ladd v. Holmes · People Ex Rel. Lindstrand v. Emmerson · Ex Parte: Hawthorne and Mahoney
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is suggested by petitioner-appellee that inasmuch as he has now changed his registered party affiliation to Republican, the operation of Section 101.111 does not now operate to deprive him of his right to vote either in his party primary elections or in general elections, wherefore all questions raised on this appeal are moot as to him. We think, however, that the declaration by the lower court of the invalidity of portions of Section 101.111 as applied in primary elections is of sufficient public interest that this court may review it. Pace v. King, Fla., 38 So.2d 823 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Primary elections are therefore the beginning of the operation of the general election laws that must ultimately result in the actual choice of our elective public officers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in all elections by the people, the vote shall be by ballot,”
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.