Salgo v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1996
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Callahan v. Giles · Lord v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States · 19 Del. Ch. 172 - Gow v. Consolidated Coppermines Corp. · Standard Power & Light Corp. v. Investment Associates, Inc. · In re Giant Portland Cement Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiffs’ contention that the function of an election inspector is purely ministerial rather than judicial has support in opinions from several jurisdictions, but most of the statements to this effect must be taken in context to mean that the decision of the inspector is not binding on the court in subsequent litigation to review the election. Other courts have recognized that election inspectors have a measure of discretion and have refused to disturb their findings even after the election if made fairly, honestly and in good faith. Since the authority of the election inspector here is not defined by statute or bylaw, we have no basis to hold that his decision concerning validity of the disputed proxies cannot be judicially reviewed after the election. However, we do hold that he has discretionary authority to decide such matters for the purpose of making an initial determination of the result of the election. ****>!* # The function of the inspector is to determine the result of the election accurately and declare the result promptly so that the affairs of the corporation may go forward,____ That function ought not to be interrupted while opposing factions litigate. If he errs, the losing party may resort to the courts after the election to determine whether the result was properly declared. Id. at 627-628 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“judgment is here rendered dismissing the action and restoring the parties to the status existing when the suit was filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Salgo v. Hoffman
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.