Miller v. Coffee’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 1958
18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of the statute is to safeguard the integrity of the ballot by the specific requirement that 'all ballots cast must bear the signature of the election judge, and, further, that a ballot not bearing such signature shall not be counted. This precludes any inquiry into the regularity of the ballot or fairness of the count, and all other questions affecting the validity of the ballot, and arbitrarily as a matter of law, declares that such ballot shall not be counted. If such ballot shall not be counted, it would be in defiance of the statute to permit it to be counted upon any consideration whatever.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Loudermilk v. Wilson““All such elections shall be held, and returns thereof made to the board of school trustees, in accordance with the general election laws.””
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.