Bagley v. Holt’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. ““Courts long ago settled the question, differing only in the phraseology used, by holding that whatever the law requires a voter to do himself he must do as required in order to cast a valid ballot; but that failure on the part of election officers to perform their duties prescribed by law, where such failure has not prevented a fair election, will not deprive the elector of his voting privilege or of his right to exercise it. (Citing cases.) The elector in this instance, burdened as he was by illiteracy, did all that the law required of him. Misunderstanding of the election judge’s duties and failure on the part of that election official to observe the law’s precepts, did not render the elector’s ballot invalid.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Holt v. Trantham