State ex rel. Crain v. Acker’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1989
11 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 Musbach v. Wisconsin Chair Co. · State ex rel. Dithmar v. Bunnell · Bakalars v. Continental Casualty Co. · State ex rel. Blodgett v. Eagan
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The constitutional right of an elector to have any reasonable expression of his intention iii voting given effect is of the most sacred character, and no intent to thwart it can be ascribed to the legislature except upon unambiguous expression. While such purpose has been found in modern ballot legislation of some of the states, it is not declared in our statutes, and a ballot marked in such manner that the intention of the elector can be gleaned therefrom should be received and counted so as to effectuate that intent. This purpose is manifest in the statute and has been declared by this court.” State ex rel. Crain v. Acker, 142 Wis. 394, 395 , 125 N. W. 952 .”
2 later decisions 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.