Wellwood v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
172 F.3d 1007 · 1999
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2025
7 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
Relies on Craig v. Boren · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp. · California Retail Liquor Dealers Assn. v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc. · 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island · Meyer v. Grant
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when an independently identifiable class ha[s] an interest in the issue discriminated against”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in no way burden the ability of supporters of localoption elections to make their views heard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to change a county from `wet' to `dry' or vice versa”
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.