Behrensmeyer v. Kreitz’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently January 1960 · most notably Garrett v. Cuninghame (1924), Tuthill v. Rendelman (1944)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 61 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Kreitz v. Behrensmeyer · City of Beardstown v. City of Virginia · Clark v. Robinson · Pond v. Ennis · Eddy v. People ex rel. Eddy
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It (the ballot) should be read in the light of all the circumstances surrounding the election and the voter, and the object should be to ascertain and carry into effect the intention of the voter, if it can be determined with reasonable certainty. The ballot should be reasonably construed, and the intendments should be in favor of a reading and construction which will render the ballot effective rather than in favor of a conclusion which will on some technical ground render it ineffective.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pierce v. People
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.