Love v. Buckner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We are bound to give effect to a grant of power to the State Executive Committee of a party to determine who shall participate in the acts of the party otherwise than by voting in a primary, when the Legislature grants the power in language too plain to admit of controversy, and when the determination of the Committee conflicts with no other statutory requirement or prohibition, especially when the Committee’s determination makes effectual the public policy of the State as revealed in its statutes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nixon v. Condon

2. “Whether the Democratic State Executive Committee had lawful authority to require otherwise lawfully qualified and eligible Democratic voters to take the pledge specified in the resolution adopted by the Committee at its meeting in March,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nixon v. Condon

3. “With regard to the state committee’s power to exact this pledge the statutes are by no means silent. The statutes do not deny the power but plainly recognize and confer same.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nixon v. Condon