Potter v. Bolden’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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

1. “the witnesses painted a picture of promiscuous vote buying and other conduct on the part of certain individuals indicating intentional wrongdoing and gross negligence, all of which adversely affected the integrity of the election.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 452 So. 2d 564 - Bolden v. Potter

2. “before all absentee ballots cast in a single-county election may be declared invalid, there must be a specific finding of invalidity as to a sufficient number of ballots more than enough to change the result of the election.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 452 So. 2d 564 - Bolden v. Potter

3. “so conspicuously corrupt and pervasive that it ... tainted the entire absentee voting procedure in this election.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 452 So. 2d 564 - Bolden v. Potter