Penn v. Irizarry’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2019
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hurlbut v. Lemelin · Wrinn v. Dunleavy · Scully v. Town of Westport · State v. Bossa · Dombkowski v. Messier
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“order a new primary if he finds that but for the error in the ruling of the election official, any mistake in the count of the votes or any violation of said sections, the result of such primary might have been different and he is unable to determine the result of such primary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This Court acknowledges and concurs in the reluctance with which courts invalidate ballots, because such action effectively disenfranchises the voters involved”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he use of [a] conjunctive ... indicates that both conditions must be fulfilled”
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.