Melchior v. Todman’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
June 1987
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 48 U.S.C. § 1561
Relies on Murchie v. Clifford
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This does not prevent a straight party ballot, which is defective only in connection with the vote for Senators resident in St. Thomas, from being a valid vote for the party nominees for the offices of Senator-at-large, Senator resident in St. John and Washington Representative, all of which also appear on the ballot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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