Powell v. Hambrick’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““ The very purpose of these sections of the Code was to afford an expeditious and simple remedy for the ousting from an office of a usurper at the suit of the person entitled to it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Goin v. Smith