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22 F. Supp. 2d 1265 - Atherton v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
September 2012
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988

Relies on Anderson v. Celebrezze · Munro v. Socialist Workers Party · Rainbow Coalition of Oklahoma v. Oklahoma State Election Board · Baer v. Meyer

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “entitled to be heard as a party with respect to First Amendment rights and to be protected from undue restriction by the State of Oklahoma” because of its”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “no difference in a constitutional sense between Oldahoma law and the Colorado law at issue in Baer”
    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.