Ex parte May’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Whereas, the final returns from the Democratic Primary Election held May 2, 1950, show that Neil O. Davis, Jack M. Bridges, W. L. Horn and Grover C. Hughes and each of them were duly elected as members of the State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama from the Third Congressional District of Alabama for the term beginning on Monday, January 15, 1951; and “Whereas, on January 3, 1951, a subcommittee of the State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama rendered its finding and judgment that the said four named members and each of them were not duly and legally elected to such membership; and “Whereas, it has been proved- to this Committee that the finding of said subcommittee was arrived at by a majority of -one or a vote of three to two, and that there was no evidence to support said findings and that said subcommittee misapplied the law to the facts; that said subcommittee actually counted less than 2500 ballots cast in said primary election for the office of member of said State Democratic Executive Committee of Alabama from the Third Congressional District; that no fraud, corruption or crookedness in said election were proved, to said subcommittee and that there has been no evidence of any such; that the conclusion of said subcommittee and its finding and judgment would result in destroying the sanctity of the ballot and in disfranchising the voters of the Third Congressional District of Alabama ; that such conclusion, finding and judgment is not final and binding a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Prather v. Ray

2. ““The circuit courts of this state have jurisdiction to issue writs of prohibition to prevent the executive committees of political parties and the sub-committees thereof from proceeding in election contests, where such committees or sub-committees do not have jurisdiction to hear and determine such contests. Such is the effect of Ex parte State ex rel. Bragg, 240 Ala. 80 , 197 So. 32 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Perloff v. Edington