Barr v. Galvin’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. Rhodes · Timmons v. Twin Cities Area New Party · Nieves-Márquez v. Puerto Rico · Weaver v. Henderson · Batchelder v. Allied Stores International, Inc.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A “state officer” is, ultimately, defined as “a national, state or county officer.” Thus, the category of “state officers” is defined to be broader than itself, a nonsensical conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barr v. Galvin“to any election at which a national, state, or county officer or a regional district school committee member elected district-wide is to be chosen by the voters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barr v. Galvin
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.