Commonwealth v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
October 1925
most recently cited
1 state decisions
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He shall, in addition to said qualifications, be a member of the party for whose nominees he intends to cast his vote, and shall have affiliated with said party and supported its nominees, and no persons shall be deemed to have affiliated with the party in whose primary he seems (seeks) to cast his vote, if he voted against the nominee or nominees of such party at the last general election.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nunnelly v. Doty
How this case has been treated — in progress
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