Black v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘ ‘ ‘ The remaining grounds of contest, if they are true in fact, are insufficient to change the result. It is no valid objection to an election that illegal votes were received, or legal votes rejected, if they were not numerous enough to overcome the majority. (Citing cases.)’ To the same effect, see Webb v. Bowden, 124 Ark. 244 , 187 S. W. 461 , where we said: ‘But if the returns had been purged of all the illegal votes shown to have been cast in those precincts, it could not have affected the general result. “It is no valid objection to the election that illegal votes were received or that legal votes were rejected if they were not numerous enough to overcome the majority.” ’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wood v. Brown

2. “The remaining grounds of contest, if they are true in fact, are insufficient to change the result. It is no valid objection to an election that illegal votes were received, or legal votes rejected, if they were not numerous enough to overcome the majority.To the same effect, see Webb v. Bowden, 124 Ark. 244 , 187 S.W 461, 465, where we said: ‘But if the returns had been purged of all the illegal votes shown to have been cast in those precincts, it could not have affected the general result. ‘It is no valid objection to the election that illegal votes were received or that legal votes were rejected if they were not numerous enough to overcome the majority.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tate-Smith v. Cupples