Hankey v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1954
9 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 The People v. . Cook · Gilleland v. Schuyler · State v. Campbell · 33 Tex. Crim. 594 - Ex Parte White · State ex rel. Crawford v. Norris
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a rule of universal application that elections conducted fairly and honestly, where no fraud or illegal voting is charged or shown, will not be set aside for mere irregularity in the manner of the appointment of the election officers or in the conduct of the election. Peard v. State, 34 Neb. 372 , 51 N. W. 828 ; Wells v. Taylor, 5 Mont. 202 , 3 Pac. 255 ; People v. Cook, 8 N. Y. 67 [ 59 Am. Dec. 451 ]; Keller v. Chapman, 34 Cal. 635 ; Ex parte White, 33 Tex. Cr. R. 594 , 28 S. W. 542 ; Steele v. Calhoun, 61 Miss. 556 .””
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.