Upton v. Knuckles’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2016
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Wallbrecht v. Ingram · Siler v. Brown · Hocker v. Pendleton · Lakes v. Estridge · Herald v. Turner
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the vote of a precinct can be thrown out for irregularities in the conduct of the election therein of such magnitude as effectively to destroy any hope that the results as tabulated were a fair indication of the sense of the voters in that precinct and (2) that the result of the election can be determined on the basis of the votes from the remainder of the election territory unless the number of votes in the precinct constituted a substantial portion (20% or more) of the votes in the entire territory. Upton v. Knuckles, Ky., 470 S.W.2d 822, 825 (1971).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jernigan v. Curtis
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.