Sharrow v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 13 U.S.C. § 141 · 2 U.S.C. § 2A · 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Flast v. Cohen · Reynolds v. Sims · Wesberry v. Sanders · Ex parte Poresky
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Irrespective of the Fourteenth Amendment’s mandate the Congress, in the present state of the law, is not required to prescribe that census-takers ascertain information relative to disfranchisement.”
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.