Healey v. Rank’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
February 1998
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Lawrence · State ex rel. Andrews v. Boyden · State ex rel. Ketterling v. Gregory · State Ex Rel. Papke v. Denu · St. Lawrence Independent School Dist. v. Board of Education
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The duties of a county recount board are ministerial in nature and it has no judicial or quasi judicial functions. Smith v. Lawrence, 2 S.D. 185 , 49 N.W. 7 . The board has no other powers or duties than to recount the ballots, certify the result and make a separate and distinct certificate as to disputed ballots, if any. * * *" 82 S.D. at 58 , 140 N.W.2d at 852 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thoms v. Andersen
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.