Kegley v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[The statutory and constitutional provisions] express a clear constitutional and legislative purpose that such a student does not, by his mere presence in the locality in which the institution is located, thereby establish such locality as a new voting residence nor forfeit his previous voting residence. It is stated in an annotation in 98 A.L.R.2d 488 , that the effect of such constitutional and statutory provisions is to nullify “the fact of a student’s physical or bodily presence as a step in determining his residence, and the courts generally treat it as a neutral factor, ascertaining his residence from the evidence of his intent.” 98 A.L.R.2d, at p. 490. The crucial factor, then, in the case before us, is Johnson’s intention with respect to his stay in Albemarle County. Kegley v. Johnson, 147 S.E.2d at 737 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Manard v. Miller