Caldwell v. McElvain’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1946
22 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 Kelly v. Adams · Beall v. Albert · Catron v. Craw · Dooley v. Van Hohenstein
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ There were a considerable number where voters had made a cross in the circle at the head of' more than one ticket. There were five tickets on the ballot: the Republican, Democratic, People’s, Prohibition, and Socialist Labor. The Republican and Democratic tickets were the only ones upon which there was a candidate for county judge. Where there were marks in the circle at the head of these two, the vote was for both, and neither was counted; but where there was a cross at the head of the Democratic or Republican ticket, and also at the head bf one or more of the other tickets, the ballot, was counted for the candidate for county judge on said Democratic or Republican ticket. There being no* candidate for that office on the other tickets, the cross did not indicate a vote for that office. The rulings on these questions were right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.