Bush v. Head’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 3 Cal. 3d 118 - Canales v. City of Alviso (1970), 32 Cal. 2d 430 - Garrison v. Rourke (1948)
35 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 Saunders v. Haynes · Tucker v. Aiken · State ex rel. Newell v. Purdy · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Collier · Sweeny v. Adams
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Apart from other considerations it must be obvious that public policy, demanding, inter alia, the preservation of ‘secrecy in voting’ (Const., art. II, sec. 5) [now art. II, § 6] would not be subserved by permitting the vote of a lawful elector, who had cast his ballot in regular manner and form, to be impeached by a judicial inquiry into the reasons which led him to cast that ballot in favor of one candidate rather than another. ...” ( 154 Cal. at p. 282 ; (italics added).)”
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.