Pollard v. Snodgrass’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It has been held * * * that a substantial compliance with the procedural requirements concerning an election is sufficient unless it is shown that failure strictly to comply with the letter of the law materially interfered with the election and the right of the electors freely to participate therein. The election notices were posted some time during the day of December 1, 1946. If they had been posted prior to midnight November 30, the posting would have complied literally with the provision of the statute. Since, in that event no resident of the precinct would probably have seen them before sunup the next morning, the difference, in practical effect, between the time of actual posting and that provided by the statute could not have been more than a few hours. We think, in view of the fact that no voter was deprived of his privilege of suffrage by virtue of the short delay in posting the notices, the act of the clerk in posting them on December 1, 1946, was a substantial compliance with the statute, * *”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Royalty v. Nicholson · Chumney v. Craig