Guernsey v. McHaley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * At least 20 days before any election, the county clerk is required to deliver to the sheriff of the county at least five notices of the election for each precinct in the county voting on the question, the form of such notice being prescribed by the statute, and it is made the duty of the sheriff, at least 12 days before the election, to post said notices in public places in the vicinity of the polling place or places, and enter of record his compliance with the law in this regard.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Witham v. McNutt

2. ““It is said that no substantial injury resulted in the case under consideration from the failure to post the notices as required by law, but this can never be known. There was, in fact, less votes cast on the question of prohibition than for some of the county officers, and there is no means of determining how many voters did not attend the election who would have done so if they had been advised that such question was to be submitted.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Witham v. McNutt