Trammell v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The mode of information prescribed for townships is by vote of electors at a general election. We understand that no objection is made to that. With regard to institutions of learning, the court derives its information from the expressed wishes of a majority of the adult inhabitants residing within three miles. If the petitioners made the law for the district, or were required to express their views and feelings at the regular legal polls, it would be fatal that females and others, not qualified electors, might participate. But considered simply as a 'condition upon which the county court must decline to issue license, and as a prescribed means of information, the provision for the voice of women is neither unreasonable nor unconstitutional. They are not beings wholly ignored by the Constitution and the laws, and there is much reason to believe that their womanly instincts and keen foresight of demoralizing influences are truer than the often careless judgment of electors. It is undoubted everywhere that men and children are safest under the moral influences and social surroundings which are approved by women.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McClure v. Topf