Bryan v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2006
24 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 Gallagher v. Linwood · Crist v. Abbott · Wood v. Beals · State ex rel. Walker v. Bridges · Montoya v. Ortiz
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a basic proposition the law favors the right to vote and seeks to give effect to the expressed will of the electorate. It upholds the validity of votes cast and of elections held, without fraud, though irregular. Esquibel v. Chaves, supra [ 12 N.M. 482 , 78 P. 505 ]; Carabajal v. Lucero, 22 N.M. 30 , 158 P. 1088 , 1090; Montoya v. Ortiz, 24 N.M. 616 , 175 P. 335 ; State ex rel. Read v. Crist, 25 N.M. 175 , 179 P. 629 , 630; State ex rel. Walker v. Bridges, 27 N.M. 169 , 199 P. 370 ; Gallegos v. Miera, 28 N.M. 565 , 215 P. 968 , 990; Wright v. Closson, 29 N.M. 546 , 224 P. 483 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Telles v. Carter““This seems plainly to contemplate that the issues between the parties upon which the cause is. to be decided, both of law and of fact, are to be determined by these pleadings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rogers v. Scott“[t]hus it seems that this court has made it extremely plain that such regulations of electors and of voting are directory unless expressly made mandatory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kiehne v. Atwood
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.