Thompson v. Boling’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1992
9 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 Flanders v. Roberts · O'Connell v. Mathews · Howard v. Harrington · Snowden v. Flanery · Carwile v. Jones
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a general rule that when it is clear that the voter has made an honest effort to conform to the directions of the statute as to the manner of voting, although with imperfect results, the ballot should be counted if the intention of the voter can be effectuated. In this state the undeviating practice has been to search out the purpose of the voter, and if he has manifested his intention by his ballot, it will be given effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McIntosh v. Helton“It is not enough that some possibility defeating the evident purpose of the voter can be conjectured. The rule requires only reasonable probability, and that which is probably intended cannot be said to be impossible of ascertainment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McIntosh v. Helton
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.