Reese v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The contestant must overcome the presumption that the early voting ballot board or signature-verification committee acted properly in rejecting or accepting ballots. The contestant must show that the board erred. In determining whether there is a signature discrepancy involving an early voting ballot, the trial court may hear testimony from the voter or other witnesses on the similarity of the signatures and may compare the signatures to refute the signature verification committee’s decision. Having reviewed and compared each pair of challenged signatures in the trial court’s finding of fact number twenty-three, we conclude none of the pairs of signatures are similar enough to compel the conclusion that the voter signed the ballot application or carrier envelope or both, or to override the trial court’s finding that either the ballot application or the carrier envelope or both were not signed by the voter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Harrison v. Stanley