McLain v. Fish’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1985
24 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 Hester v. Bourland · Logan v. Russell · Ferguson v. Montgomery · Govan v. Jackson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any contest arising upon any election held under this Act, it shall be a ground of rejection of any ballot cast by an elector, whose name (a) does not appear upon the certified list of poll tax payers; or (b) who has not filed with the judges of election his original or certified copy of poll tax receipt, or written affidavit of the attainment of his majority; or (c) if such original or certified copy of such poll tax receipt or written affidavit has not been returned by the judges of election; or (d) the name of such person listed separately and certified as required by this Act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Logan v. Moody
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.