Stratton v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1997
17 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 Dowlin v. Boyd · McCharen v. Mead · Wright v. Marquis
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mrs. Rutledge left Loving County and went to San Angelo almost a year before the election ... she rented a house there. Mr. Rutledge left [four months before the election] and ... leased a place in Irion County from his mother for ... three years and was living there with his family at the time of the election_ [Mr.] Rutledge and his wife [conceded that they] had lived in two other counties after leaving Loving County ... [and that] the house in which they had lived ... had been sold. These facts, we think clearly justified the trial court in concluding that they had [abandoned their residency] notwithstanding the expressed intention to return to Loving County.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It appears to be well settled that in the absence of a statute prohibiting the counting of ballots because of irregularities either in preparing or casting, and in the absence of fraud or of a showing that the returns were changed or tampered with, ballots cast by qualified voters should be counted.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. Jones
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.