Wit v. Berman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. “[i]t is a matter of virtually uniform recognition that, where state constitutional and statutory provisions limit the right to vote to the residents of a given geographical area, the term residence should be equated with the concept of domicile”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Opinion of the Justices (Definition of Resident and Residence)

2. “Wit v. Berman , 306 F.3d 1256 , 1261 (2d Cir. 2002) (citing Annotation, Residence of Students for Voting Purposes , 44 A.L.R.3d 797 § 2, at 801 (1972), for the proposition that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Opinion of the Justices (Definition of Resident and Residence)

3. “some political organizations might well find it in their interests to attempt to register large numbers of persons with only marginal connections to the electoral district”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Opinion of the Justices (Definition of Resident and Residence)