McMaster v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably 323 So. 2d 259 - Boardman v. Esteva (1975), Sommerfeld v. Board of Canvassers (1955)
29 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 Cain v. Garvey · Ashley v. Three Justices of the Superior Court · Axberg v. City of Lincoln · People ex rel. Williams v. Cicott · Guice v. McGehee
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the policy of the law to prevent as far as possible the disfranchisement of electors who have cast their ballots in good faith, and while the technical requirements set forth in the absentee voting law are mandatory, yet in meeting these requirements laws are construed so that a substantial compliance therewith is all that is required.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“but formal mistakes, perhaps a mere clerical and careless error, while the essential facts required by law can still be ascertained,”
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.