State ex rel. Baggett v. Long’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The provision for the making of the certificate within ten days of presentation of the petition to the Registrar does not in any manner affect the rights of the petitioners or of the person sought to be recalled. In our opinion, it is merely a provision to compel the Registrar of Voters to perform his duty within a specified time so as to prevent him from pigeonholing the petition indefinitely and the mere fact that his certificate should be issued after a period longer than ten days after the petition was presented to him, should not render the certificate of no effect. To hold otherwise would give the Registrar complete control as to whether or not a recall election could be had and he could defeat the rights of petitioners granted by the Statute by the simple procedure of merely withholding his certificate for a period of more than ten days after the petition was presented to him * * *. We do not believe it was the intention of the Legislature to create such a situation; but rather we believe that that part of the Statute was to give an opportunity to the proponents of a recall petition to force the Registrar of Voters, by proper court action, to perform his duties and to issue the required certificate in the event that he failed to do so within the ten days of the presentation to him of the recall petition.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hyatt v. Board of Supervisors of Elections for Beauregard Parish