Murphy v. State Election Board’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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

1. “but must accord the language used by the Legislature, it being unambiguous, ... fair, reasonable, plain and ordinary import or meaning”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oklahoma City Zoological Trust v. STATE EX REL. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RELATIONS BD. · Oklahoma City Zoological Trust v. State Ex Rel. Public Employees Relations Board

2. “(c) Any person desiring to file as a candidate for any such [state or national] office who adopts, appropriates, uses or purloins the name of any person of State or national reputation, lining or dead, or of any hero, public official, military general, or any well-known individual or celebrity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Freeman v. State Election Board