Christy v. Oliphint’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1992
6 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 Sterling v. Ferguson · Thomas v. Groebl · Wood v. State Ex Rel. Lee · State Et Rel. Lukovich v. Johnston · McWaters v. Tucker
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Section 23. Application of other Laws; Fraud and Perjury. "The provisions of all other laws relating to the conduct of elections or primary elections, shall so far as practicable, applied to the conduct of elections and primary elections where voting machines are used, unless herein otherwise provided; provided, however, it is declared to be the public policy of this State that the provisions herein, providing for the use of voting machines at elections, are regulations to detect and punish fraud, and to preserve the purity of the ballot box; and any voter who fraudulently or illegally casts a ballot, or who casts a fraudulent or illegal ballot upon a voting machine, at any election (after the casting of such fraudulent or illegal ballot, or such fraudulent or illegal casting of a ballot has been established by final adjudication before a court of competent jurisdiction and by competent evidence), shall be compelled and required to disclose the names of the candidate or candidates for whom he cast such ballot at such election, and the ballot cast by him upon any question or questions at such election in any proceedings instituted under the laws of this State in any court of competent jurisdiction, and whoever in such proceedings shall swear and/or testify falsely, shall be deemed guilty of the offense of perjury, and shall be subject to the penalties provided for such offense by the laws of this State."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oliphint v. Christy“[w]e do not conceive it to be the law that an elector is entitled to a `secret ballot' when it is conclusively established that [the elector] is legally entitled to no ballot at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abbott v. Hunhoff“that the trial court erred in refusing to compel the witnesses, who were shown to be disqualified to vote, to testify as to the candidate for whom they cast their vote.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oliphint v. Christy
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.