Pye v. Hanzel’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1988
13 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 Pennington v. Hare · Elwell v. Comstock · Truelsen v. Hugo · Bloedel v. Cromwell · McVeigh v. Spang
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“draw reasonable inferences from the evidence before it, even though such evidence may consist of ballots and other written evidence, and the findings and conclusions drawn by the court below must be sustained if they are such that reasonable minds might draw such inferences and make such findings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * any mark, however crude and imperfect in form, if it is apparent that it was honestly intended as a cross mark, and for nothing else, must be given effect as such; * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sperl v. Wegwerth
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.