Curry v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1986
13 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 Simpkins v. Malatt · State v. Ellison · Trew v. Gaskill
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is never the duty of courts to place so rigid a construction upon the language of any act, where there is room for interpretation, as to defeat the purposes of the legislature. Still less are we disposed to adopt such a view where the object of the law is to secure to the electors the purity of the ballot-box, by subjecting to the scrutiny of the courts the conduct of the officers in charge of the election.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kulike v. Fern
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.