Boucher v. Bomhoff’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2024
18 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 Capital Service, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · United Shoe MacHinery Corp. v. United States · Jones v. Georgia · People v. Collins · Sacher v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The presumption of validity given to elections and the diffidence with which the court attacks the results thereof places a heavy burden on the trial judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dansereau v. Ulmer““As required by the Constitution of the State of Alaska . . . Shall there be a constitutional convention?” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kahalekai v. Doi“malconduct, fraud, or corruption on the part of an election official sufficient to change the result of the election”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Braun v. Borough
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.