Hackett v. Mayhew’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1953
4 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.
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.
“It is undoubtedly the duty of the courts to enforce these provisions just as they were enacted ( Chandless v. Day, 27 Vroom 682 ), but courts will not go beyond them to defeat the expressed will of the voter because of a mere irregularity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.