McConnell v. Salmon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The danger that the ballots may be tampered with after the count is made known, especially if the vote is very close, is so great that no opportunity for such tampering can be permitted. Such ballots in order to be received in evidence, must have remained in the custody of the proper officers of the law from the time of the original couht until they are produced before the proper court or officer and if it appears that they have been handled by unauthorized persons or that they have been left in an exposed and improper place, they cannot be offered to overcome the official count.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Welch v. Fitzgerald

2. ““The ballot boxes containing the ballots, poll list and tally sheet shall be carefully sealed after the count shall have been completed and the returns, signed and sworn to, shall be deposited with the respective clerks of the District Courts throughout the State and in the Parish of Orleans with the Clerk of the Criminal District Court by the commissioners of election.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lafargue v. Galloway

3. ““For the reasons orally assigned and to-be set forth in an opinion hereafter to be filed, the judgment herein appealed from, is affirmed with costs.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hunt v. Sims