Dougherty v. Holm’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2010
11 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 Railroad Commission v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad · Railroad Commission of Wisconsin v. Chicago B & Q R Co · State Ex Rel. Bergin v. Washburn · Monahan v. Supreme Lodge of the Order of Columbian Knights · Lorentz v. Aetna Life Insurance Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the surnames of two or more candidates for the same or different offices appearing on the same ballot at any election are the same, each such candidate shall have added thereto not to exceed three words, indicating his occupation and residence, and upon such candidate furnishing to the officer preparing the official ballot such words, they shall be printed on the ballot with and as are the names of the candidates and immediately after his name.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Petersen v. Holm““It seems clear that the legislative purpose in permitting candidates to identify themselves where two or more having the same surname appear on the ballot is to prevent confusion in the minds of voters and to enable them to cast their ballots for the candidates of their choice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foley v. Donovan
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.