23 Ill. 2d 365 - Morandi v. Heiman’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2006
23 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 People ex rel. Agnew v. Graham · 18 Ill. 2d 400 - Scribner v. Sachs · Talbott v. Thompson · Lehman v. Hill · 2 Ill. 2d 421 - Griffin v. Rausa
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is precisely this type of occurrence that the initialling provisions are designed to prevent. Their purpose is to permit ready identification of legal ballots cast (Laird v. Williams, 281 Ill. 233, 238, 239 ); *** to prevent the voting and counting of ballots that may have been surreptitiously obtained and copied (Kelly v. Adams, 183 Ill. 193 ); to safeguard the votes of electors (Sibley v. Staiger, 347 Ill. 288 ); to prevent frauds from being committed in elections, and to afford efficient means for detecting frauds. (Griffin v. Rausa, 2 Ill. 2d 421 .) The precautionary nature of initialling is such that we have held it cannot be supplied or corrected after the ballots have once been deposited in the ballot box. Talbott v. Thompson, 350 Ill. 86, 96 .” (Emphasis added.) Morandi, 23 Ill. 2d at 374 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““At the close of the regular balloting and at the close of the polls the judges of election of each voting precinct shall proceed to cast the absent voter’s ballot separately, *** and having endorsed the ballot in like manner as other ballots are required to be endorsed, shall deposit the same in the proper ballot box or boxes and enter the absent voter’s name in the poll book the same as if he had been present and voted in person.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 46, par. 19 — 9.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No ballot without the official endorsement shall be deposited in the ballot box, and none but ballots provided in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be counted.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 46, par. 17 — 16.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.