Grounds v. Lawe’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably State v. Ferrari (1975), Matsumato v. Arizona Sand and Rock Company (1956)
27 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 Russell v. Golden Rule Mining Co. · In Re Hesse's Estate · Hunt v. Campbell · Hiatt v. Lee · Bryan v. Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t does not follow that such illegal votes must necessarily be counted in making up the true result because it cannot be ascertained for whom they were cast. In purging the polls of illegal votes, the general rule is that, unless it can be shown for which candidate they were cast, they are to be deducted from the whole vote of the election division, and not from the candidate having the largest number. Of course, in the application of this rule such illegal votes would be deducted proportionately from both candidates, according to the entire vote returned for each. To attempt to cast the burden upon either candidate to show for which particular candidate the illegal votes were cast would in most cases be impractical, ex ceedingly expensive, and would result in interminable delay and uncertainty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where the candidacy is for a public office in connection with an area larger than the election district where the illegal votes are cast and with respect to which the election district contributes but a portion of the entire vote, it will be seen that if the distribution as between the candidates of votes in the election district is not in the same ratio as the distribution of the entire vote of the larger area, different candidates may be declared elected according to whether the illegality is ignored or the votes proportionately deducted according to the vote of the election district.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““This court has always construed our statutes in regard to amendments with a great deal of liberality even when the amendment was offered on a new trial after an appeal.” Grounds v. Lawe, 67 Ariz. 176 at 186 , 193 P.2d 447, 453 (1948).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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