Williams v. Lide’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably 684 So. 2d 132 - Ex Parte Toyota Motor Corp. (1996), United States v. Jones (1997)
4 federal appellate · 21 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 Burgett v. Texas · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Mitchell v. Kinney · Shepherd v. Southern Railway Company · 323 So. 2d 259 - Boardman v. Esteva
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`unless those findings are plainly and palpably wrong and not supported by the evidence.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fluker v. Wolff · Long v. Bryant“"[W]e conclude that the three-element test devised by the trial court was the most lenient test it could have used, under the circumstances, to determine whether affidavits were in substantial compliance with § 17-10-7 and whether any irregularities in them would `adversely affect the sanctity of the ballot [or] the integrity of the election.' ... Had the trial court been any more lenient, it would have effectively abolished § 17-10-7 and, necessarily, would have compromised the integrity of the election process."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"(a) that the voter was not guilty of `fraud, gross negligence, or intentional wrongdoing'; "(b) that the voter substantially complied `with the essential requirements of the absentee voting law'; and "(c) that any irregularities in the vote do not `adversely affect the sanctity of the ballot and the integrity of the election.'"”
2 later decisions 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.