Davis v. Walcott’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1992
16 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 98 W. Va. 41 - Hatfield v. Board of Canvassers of Mingo Co. · State ex rel. Symmonds v. Barnett
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A voter must strictly conform to those things which he is required by statute to do. `The weight of authority is clearly in favor of holding the voter, on the one hand, to a strict performance of those things which the law requires of him, and on the other of relieving him from the consequence of a failure on the part of election officers to perform their duties according to the letter of the statute where such failure has not prevented a fair election.' McCrary, Elections, (4th Ed.) § 724; Davis v. Walcott, Tex. Civ.App., 96 S.W.2d 817 . To hold that a voter's signature on the stub is unnecessary would be to repeal the secret ballot law of Texas, which the Legislature has enacted."”
2 later decisions 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.