Walker’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Plyler v. Doe · Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc. · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the same words may play different roles in different contexts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.