Jones v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The law, scrupulous to preserve the integrity of the ballots actually cast, guards against any substitutions by the requirement that the commissioners themselves, or at least two of them, shall carry the ballot boxes and returns, not to the clerk, but to the board of supervisors.” (Italics ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lafargue v. Galloway