McCaffreys' Appeals’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1980 · most notably Bauman Election Contest Case (1944), Norwood Election Contest Case (1955)
27 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 Rimer's Contested Election. Geary's App'l. · Twenty-Eighth Congressional District Nomination · Smith's Petition · Carroll's Appeal · Springdale Township Election Recount
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]ot every mark which may separate and distinguish a ballot will necessarily result in a declaration of invalidity, but only such marks as cannot be reasonably supposed to have been made by the voter except for the very purpose of distinguishing his ballot and which are appropriate to that end.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.