Edwards v. Logan’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 1953 · most notably Scholl v. Bell (1907), Muncy v. Duff (1922)
49 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.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule may be stated to be that, where the ballots are preserved so that their identitly is assured, they can be counted during a contest and they undoubtedly are better evidence of the vote cast than the returns, and should prevail where there is a difference. Hughes v. Holman, 23 Or. 481 , 32 Pac. 298 ; Owens v. State, 64 Tex. 500 ; People v. Holden, 28 Cal. 123 . But, before-a recount of the ballots should be allowed to rebut the presumption of the correctness of the official returns, it should be proved satisfactorily that the ballots had not been tampered with since the election, and that those offered in evidence are the identical ones cast.””
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.