Vidrine v. Eldred’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 2000 · most notably Dowling v. Orleans Parish Democratic Committee (1958), Johnson v. Sewerage District No. 2 of Parish of Caddo (1960)
66 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 Andrews v. Blackman · Hart v. Picou
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.
““Plaintiff claims that the primary election for the Democratic nominee for mayor of Oakdale was a nullity, and, in the alternative, that he would be the nominee had the votes been properly counted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Some of these votes (ballots) were signed by the voter. Some of them contained other marks than the cross mark in the square opposite the names of candidates, as for instance, the names of candidates written, or additional cross marks or checks or lines outside of the square; some contained visible erasures.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nolan v. Martin
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.