Speigel v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
September 2008
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 60 So. 2d 314 - Allen v. Butler · Pearson v. Taylor · Blackmer v. Hildreth · Carn v. Moore · 60 So. 2d 919 - De Wald v. Quarnstrom
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A different rule applies to technical or procedural irregularities which occur and are challenged prior to a general election than to those which are discovered and challenged after the general election, in the absence of corruption or fraud or a statutory penalty requiring an ouster of the elected official or a vacancy in the office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“disposition and duty of courts are to sustain popular elections whenever they have been free and fair, and it is clear that the voters have not been deprived of their right to vote, and the result has not been changed by irregularity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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