Gaston v. Lamkin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

44 state decisions

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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘1 The salient features of the system presented by the provisions contained in these sections are that at such an election no ballot shall be cast or counted except one printed at the public expense, provided by public officers, indorsed by two of them in a certain manner, delivered by them to the voter, and by him prepared alone in a certain manner in a private place provided for that purpose, screened from the observation of others, folded so as to conceal the face and expose the indorsement, and forthwith voted before the voter leaves the polling place. “It is conceded that the election in the present instance was held in total disregard of these provisions of the statute; consequently no legal vote was cast or counted at such election. We .have here, not merely irregularities in an election held in substantial compliance with the requirement of the law, but an election in which those requirements are wholly ignored and set at nought.” [l. c. 35, 36.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Wahl v. Speer

2. ““But when the subsequent statute, being a general one, does not refer specifically to a former statute, for the rule of procedure to be followed, but generally to the established law, by some such expression as ‘the same as is provided for by law, in given cases,’ then the act becomes a rule for future conduct to be found when needed by reference to the law governing such cases at the time when the rule is invoked.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sockey v. Ellis