Collins v. Casebolt’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. ““If a person lives in one district, he cannot vote in another unless he resides in the former merely for a temporary purpose. If he takes up an actual residence in a district with the intention of remaining therein indefinitely, he becomes a legal voter there though he may own property in another district where he formerly lived. He may intend to return to his former home at some indefinite time in the future, but such intention does not control. The time fixed for a return to a former home must be reasonably definite.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gambrell v. Parker

2. “. “The following rules, so far as ap-, plicable, shall be observed in determining the residence of a person offering to vote: “(1) A voter’s residence ■ shall be deemed to be at the place where his habitation is, and to which, when absent, he has the intention of returning; “(2) A voter shall not lose his- residence by absence for temporary purposes merely; nor shall he obtain a residence by being in a county or precinct for such temporary purposes, without the intention of making, that county or precinct his home”.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gambrell v. Parker