State Ex Rel. Turner v. Scott

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that where the Iowa Constitution provides that each house of the Iowa Legislature judges the qualification of its members, a quo warranto action to remove a state senator from office was a political question
• characterizing as a nonjusticia-ble controversy a quo warranto action to remove a senator who allegedly failed to satisfy state’s inhabitancy requirement
• characterizing as a non-justifiable controversy a quo warranto action to remove a Senator who allegedly failed to satisfy the states inhabitancy requirement
• characterizing as a non-justifiable controversy a quo warranto action to remove a Senator who allegedly failed to satisfy the states inhabitancy requirement
• collecting state court decisions declining to review legislative determination of members’ qualifications
• Power granted by Iowa Constitution to legislature to judge election and qualifications of its members cannot be exercised by the courts.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2012-04-20· cited 133×
• Stephenson v. Woodward
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2006-01-19· cited 66×
• Secretary of State v. STATE LEGISLATURE
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-07-14· cited 41×
• Laurie Freeman, Sharon Mockmore, Beccy Boysel, Gary D. Boysel, Linda L. Goreham, Gary R. Goreham, Kelcey Brackett, and Bobbie Lynn Weatherman v. Grain Processing Corporation
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2014-06-13· cited 38×
• Brady v. Dean
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2001-12-26· cited 32×
• In Re Jones
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-09· cited 31×
• Hussey v. Say.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2016-11-17· cited 31×
• Kallenberger v. Buchanan
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1982-07-29· cited 20×
• McPherson v. Flynn
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-14· cited 19×
• State v. Evans
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-02-23· cited 8×
• Ford v. Leithead-Todd
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2016-09-08· cited 1×
• Unnamed case
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2014-06-13
• State of Iowa ex rel. Gary Dickey v. Jason Besler
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2021-02-05
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  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2021-06-18
• In the Matter of the Conservatorship of Justin Paul Sulzner
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2021-06-30
• Pola v. American Samoa Government
  High Court of American Samoa· 2002-11-20

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Baker v. Carr
  Supreme Court· 1962-03-26· cited 6,173×
• Powell v. McCormack
  Supreme Court· 1969-10-13· cited 3,053×
• Bond v. Floyd
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-05· cited 391×
• Melland v. Johanneson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1968-07-03· cited 39×
• Markwort v. McGee
  California Supreme Court· 1951-01-10· cited 31×
• Luse v. Wray
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-05-25· cited 25×
• State v. Banks
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1970-04-24· cited 24×
• People Ex Rel. Douglas v. Barrett
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1939-02-15· cited 21×
• State Ex Rel. Schieck v. Hathaway
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1972-02-08· cited 10×
• Burge v. Tibor
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1964-12-04· cited 4×