McCracken Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably 129 N.J. Super. 296 - In Re Petition of Fifteen Registered Voters, Cty. of Sussex (1974), Parente Appeal (1957)
26 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 Boord v. Maurer · Seim's Appeal
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [A] ballot may be counted which contains a candidate’s surname only although there are other persons in the borough having the same last name, it being shown that there was no other person of such name who was a candidate for the same or any other office.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““There could scarcely be a duty more apparent and impelling on an election board than that of ascertaining for whom votes were cast. Id. at 565 , 88 A.2d at 788 (emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Grove City“common sense and the obvious facts dictate”
1 later decision 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.