Spires v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
September 2003
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Phillips v. Jacobs Ex Rel. Jacobs · Swanberg v. Tart · Jones v. Etheridge · Spires v. Members of Election Commission · Allen v. Rankin
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.
“This court has held many times that elections will not be invalidated for alleged wrongs committed unless those wrongs were such to render the result doubtful. Swanberg, 300 Ark. 304 , 778 S.W.2d 931 . Put in other terms, we have said that the failure to comply with the letter of the law by election officers, especially in matters over which the voter has no control, and in which no fraud is perpetrated, will not as a general rule render an election void, unless the statute expressly makes it so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whitley v. Cranford
How this case has been treated — in progress
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