Brown v. State Ex Rel. Stack’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 1976
8 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 Guice v. McGehee · State ex rel. Davis v. Board of Commissioners · Talbott v. Thompson · Lumm v. Simpson · State Ex Rel. Nicely v. Wildey
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.
““The failure on the part of the applicants to verify their applications was not due to any default, neglect or fraud on the part of any of the election officials, so the facts do not fall within the rule that failure of an election official to execute a directory requirement of the law shall not cause a voter to have his ballot rejected. In Werber v. Hughes (1925), 196 Ind. 542 , 148 N.E. 149 , this court clearly recognized the distinction between such cases, when it held that the failure of the clerk of the circuit court to place upon the absent voter’s ballot his official seal invalidated the ballot, while on the other hand the failure of the poll cerk to initial the ballot after it had been received by the precinct board and before being deposited in the ballot box, was an irregularity which did not void the ballot. The provisions requiring the verification of the application were intended to safeguard the purity of elections and were conditions precedent to lawfully obtaining absent voters’ ballots.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Absentee voting is an exception to the general rule and is in the nature of a special right or privilege which enables the absentee voter to exercise his right to vote in a manner not enjoyed by voters generally.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Grzeskowiak“■. “Each absent voter’s ballot must contain on the back thereof the signature of the clerk and his official seal, which thus identifies the ballot as an 'absent voter’s ballot when the same is counted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Grzeskowiak
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.