Finkelstein v. Stout’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2019
11 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 Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman · Kiehne v. Atwood · McCavitt v. Registrars of Voters of Brockton · Rich v. Walker · Fugate v. Mayor and City Council of Town of Buffalo
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). . 568 P.2d 3, 8 (Alaska 1977) (quotation and citation omitted). . See Alaska Const. art. XI, § 6. . See AS 15.45.150-.160. . Cf. Finkelstein v. Stout, 774 P.2d 786, 788 (Alaska 1989) (''The burden of proving ballot illegality in general and particularly that the ballot in question was not cast on or before election day is on the challenger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.