Mathewson v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1959
20 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 Stackpole v. Hallahan · Blackmer v. Hildreth · Patterson v. Hanley · Schuler v. Hogan · Durham v. Carbon Coal & Mining Co.
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.
““A number of ballots were properly rejected because of markings which fell within the express prohibition of the statute and the condemnation of the court in prior decisions. For instance, a number were marked with a purple-colored pencil. On some marks and figures were placed outside of the squares and' on the margin of the ballots. A number of them were where the voter had made more lines than were necessary to make a cross mark, and still others had peculiar markings not at all like the' cross mark prescribed by statute. Names were written on ballots with no cross marks in the squares opposite the names so written. . . . None of them can be regarded as legal ballots.” (p. 631.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wall v. Pierpont““The decision of that court is, of course, entitled to consideration, but, as has been frequently decided, where the case comes before this court on written or documentary evidence practically as it was presented in the district court, this court must decide for itself what the facts establish, substantially as it would if the case was original in this court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wollard v. Peterson“In this case there was no oral evidence, and none that was conflicting. The legality of each ballot is to be determined solely by the markings on its face, and all that are in question are presented here just as they were in the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.