Buonanno v. DiStefano’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2017
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 84 Ill. App. 3d 1132 - Schoenberger v. Chicago Transit Authority · Smith v. Walcott · Files v. Hill · Akizaki v. Fong · Larson v. Locken
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he contestant should not have to prove that the result would have been in fact different but for the malfunction ... A happy balance is struck by requiring the contestant to show that the irregularities were sufficiently large in number to establish the probability that the result would be changed by a shift of or the invalidation of the questioned votes. Id. at 770 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Abbott v. Hunhoff“[a]t least the new election gave to the voters who had taken the pains to go to the polls a second chance to express their choice about whom they desired to serve in the council at-large positions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n election will not be overturned upon the mere mathematical possibility that the results could have been changed, when the possibilities all combine to repel any such conclusion.”
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.