Cotton v. Fordice’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.3d 388 · 1998
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2024
11 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Hunter v. Underwood · Richardson v. Ramirez · Robinett v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“crimes. Id. The court emphasized the deliberative process through which the provision had twice been amended: First, both houses of the legislature had to pass the amendment by a two-thirds vote; then the Mississippi Secretary of State had to publish the full text of the provision at least two weeks before the popular election; finally, a majority of the voters had to approve the full text of the provision. Id. Thus, the Fifth Circuit held that”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause Mississippi's procedure resulted both in 1950 and in 1968 in a reenactment of [the provision], each amendment superseded the previous provision and removed the discriminatory taint associated with the original version.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“crimes historically excluded ... because they were not considered `black' crimes.”
2 later decisions 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.