Turtzo v. Boyer’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Schaffer v. Larzelere (1963), Sprague v. Casey (1988)
3 federal appellate · 42 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 American Labor Party Case · Thompson v. Morrison · Patton v. Commonwealth Trust Co.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is because the lawmakers of the State were aware of the inertia inherent in an unestimated percentage of the population, and the great harm which can be visited upon others because of that inertia, that it categorically established time limits for the various procedures required in the operation of the Election Code. Unless time limits were set within which to challenge the results of elections, government would perenially sit on a shaky foundation, and the citizenry would never be certain of the identity of the office-holder chosen to direct and operate the complex activities of the State, County and Municipality. Civilization must protect itself from the sluggard, as well as from the evildoer. The lazy railroad watchman, who fails to lower a safety gate in time, can inflict as much harm on innocent passengers as the bandit who holds up the train.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ssuming, as alleged, there were fraud in the execution of the affidavit[ ][in connection with the re-registration application], there was no independent act of fraud or concealment which misled plaintiff[s] or prevented discovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beauty Time Inc“to excuse delay of the injured party in asserting his rights there must be an independent act of fraud or concealment which misled or prevented discovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beauty Time Inc
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.