Ex Parte Sanders’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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

1. “[Sanders] was never in any sense a candidate for the unexpired term [to which Davis was appointed], either in the primary or in the general election, but ran for the full term to begin on January 1, 1949, and to end on December 31, 1952. As such candidate, he knew, as the electors were presumed to know, that under the provisions of [the state constitution], the term of office he was seeking did not and could not begin until January 1, 1949. That is what he asked for and that is what he got and all he got.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Florence County v. Moore

2. “that our Constitution provides ... Tn all elections to fill vacancies of office in this state, it shall be for the unexpired term only.’ If one elected to an unexpired term cannot by reason thereof claim any part of the succeeding full term, it would seem to follow that one elected to a full term cannot on basis of that election alone claim any part of the preceding unexpired term. Clearly they are two distinctly different things.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Florence County v. Moore