Talbott v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 138 Ill. 2d 21 - Pullen v. Mulligan (1990), 156 Ill. 2d 288 - McDunn v. Williams (1993)
33 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 People ex rel. Williams v. Cicott · Russell v. McDowell · Rexroth v. Schein · Heyfron v. Mahoney · Catron v. Craw
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the evidence shows that both the judges of election and the custodian of the ballots have failed properly to perform their duties, neither the returns of the judges nor the ballots will prevail over the other, but the result must be determined from a consideration of the returns and the ballots, with all the attending facts and circumstances. [Citations.]” Talbott v. Thompson (1932), 350 Ill. 86, 93 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.