Heiskell v. Landrum’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1993
7 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 Young v. Simpson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true, as stated by appellant, that this court has held in a number of cases that where the intention of the voter can be ascertained, the vote should be counted, but this intention can never be given effect against the positive provisions of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baldwin v. Wade
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.