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← 223 FSUPP3D 423 - Stein v. Cortés

Stein v. Cortés’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
February 2019
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 3 U.S.C. § 5

Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co. · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc

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

  1. “; that the Pennsylvania Election Code's recount provisions are”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “the Commonwealth allowed its citizens to cast votes on Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) machines, and used optical-scan machines to tabulate paper ballots. Fifty-four Pennsylvania Counties used one of six DRE machine models. Seventeen Counties used paper ballots that were then counted using optical-scan machines. Four Counties used both DRE and optical-scan machines.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[The p]laintiffs' allegation that voting machines may be 'hackable,' and the seemingly rhetorical question they pose respecting the accuracy of the vote count, simply do not constitute injury-in-fact.”
    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.