Wene v. Meyner’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Young v. Schering Corp. (1995), Lesniak v. Budzash (1993)
112 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.
Relationships
Relies on Kilmurray v. Gilfert · In Re Clee · State v. Woodruff · State v. Carlino · State v. Tulenko
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Election laws are to be liberally construed so as to effectuate their purpose. They should not be construed so as to deprive voters of their franchise or so as to render an election void for technical reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lesniak v. Budzash“they [the election laws] must at the same time be interpreted and enforced so as to protect the sanctity of the ballot, which is the foundation on which popular government necessarily rests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“first signed and filed with the district board a declaration designating the political party in whose primary election he [desired] to vote.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.