Widmayer v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1982
16 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 Behrensmeyer v. Kreitz · Dowie v. Driscoll · Rexroth v. Schein · Clark v. Robinson · Choisser v. York
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In addition to what appears upon the record, the trial court saw the witnesses and heard them testify. . . . “Circumstantial evidence, such as party affiliation, relations with candidates, etc., is always admitted to show how a person voted and is generally sufficient to prove the character of the vote. . . . “That a witness who is unworthy of belief testifies positively to a fact does not require the court to believe him nor bind the court to find the fact as testified to, when, from all the other evidence and circumstances proven and from the appearance and demeanor of the witness, the court is satisfied such witness has testified falsely or has been mistaken.” ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sokach's Election
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.