Howard v. Cockrell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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.

1. ““It would be an unsophisticated man indeed who would believe that a number of workers at the polls selected by a candidate were using large sums of money and buying votes for him without any knowledge on his part of their purpose and action.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Veal v. Thompson