Brisbin v. Cleary’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1963
14 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 People Ex Rel. Smith v. Pease · People ex rel. Williams v. Cicott · Williams v. Stein · Temple v. Mead · State ex rel. Doerflinger v. Hilmantel
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All elections shall be by ballot, except for such town officers as may be directed by law to be otherwise chosen.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The ballots shall be folded by the voter, and delivered to one of the judges of election, who shall forthwith lay the same on the top of the ballot box, at the same time in an audible voice proclaim the name of the person offering to vote, to the board, and if the judges be satisfied, according to the evidence as herein described, that the person offering the vote is a legal voter, the clerks of election shall enter the name of the voter and his number under the proper heading in the poll book, and the judges shall endorse on the back of the ticket offered, •the number corresponding with the number of the voter on the poll book, and shall immediately put his ticket into the ballot box.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Swenson“* * * as applied to elections of public officers, voting by ballot signifies a mode of designating an elector's choice of a person for an office by the deposit of a ticket, bearing the name of such person, in a receptacle provided for the purpose, in such a way as to secure to the elector the privilege of complete and inviolable secrecy in regard to the person voted for. This privilege of secrecy may properly be regarded as the distinguishing feature of ballot voting, as compared with open voting, as, for instance, voting viva voce. The object of the privilege is the independence of the voter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Swenson
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.