Piper v. Swan’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Thornhill v. Alabama · Snowden v. Hughes · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Lovell v. City of Griffin · Schenck v. United States
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.
“on the same floor of a building, or within one hundred (100) feet thereof, where an election is in progress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burson v. Freeman
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.