Dunagan v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The purely personal rights of the candidate in the respect mentioned is quite apart and distinct from and does not measure the right of the voter to indicate his choice of a person for the nomination of a particular office. There is a well recognized difference between the rights and duties of candidates in having their names printed on the official ballot, and the legal right of the voters in choosing their nominees on the day of the general primary election.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bryant v. O'DONNELL

2. ““If a nominee dies or declines the nomination before the election, and no one is nominated to take his place, the votes cast for him shall be counted and return made thereof; and, if he shall have received a plurality of the votes cast for the office, the vacancy shall be filled as in case of a vacancy occurring after the election.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davies v. Stiff

3. ““The article is exclusively dealing with filling vacancies by the party committee where the nominee by a plurality vote in the general primary shall die or decline the original nomination before the date of the general election following.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davies v. Stiff