Brunson v. Dobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 1924
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wade v. Oates
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is manifest from the quoted part of the statute that the lawmakers contemplated that, notwithstanding the rejection of legal votes, the result of the "election Should not be disturbed unless the party deprived of said legal votes would have been elected by the legal votes cast, including said-rejected votes.””
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.