Wallbrecht v. Ingram’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Gunaji v. MacIas (2001), McKinney v. Barker (1918)
52 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.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question then is, was the election a free and equal one within the meaning of the Constitution, and if it was not, what should be declared to be the result? Strictly speaking, a free and equal election is an election at which every person entitled to vote may do so if he desires, although in dealing with the practical aspect of elections it could hardly be said that if only a few were prevented from voting the election would not be free and equal in the constitutional sense. The very purpose of elections is to obtain a full, fair and free expression of the popular will upon the matter, whatever it may be, submitted to the people for their approval or •rejection, and when any substantial number of legal voters are, from any cause, denied the right to vote, the election is not free and equal in the meaning of the Constitution.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““All legal voters should have the privilege and right. Where it is denied to any substantial extent, it is an invasion of the highest right of the citizens, and tends to substitute other means of determining the popular will, for elections held by the people. Such course, however innocent its motive, can not be too severely discountenanced.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Elections shall be free and equal. . . .””
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.