Scott v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
December 1958
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Scholl v. Bell · Harrison v. Stroud · Taylor v. Nuetzel · Raymer v. Willis · Johnson v. Caddell
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.
““There was such a large amount of bribery, corruption, coercion, illegal voting and conduct in the holding, of said election, which number of illegal votes was greater than 20% of the votes cast in .said,race that it is impossible to determine who was legally elected, and that said election should be .declared null and void. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gross v. Ball
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.