Metheny v. Pickel’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
April 1985
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on People Ex Rel. Smith v. Pease · Behrensmeyer v. Kreitz · City of Beardstown v. City of Virginia · Gilleland v. Schuyler · State ex rel. Hopkins v. Olin
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Great precaution should be used in admitting parol testimony of witnesses indicating that they voted differently from what the ballots, properly preserved, would tend to show. Particularly would this be true where there was only a difference of one or two votes, where some voter might be induced to testify falsely for a consideration. In such case it might be dangerous to allow the testimony of one or two voters to overcome the showing made by the ballots cast ***.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Likens v. Baas
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.