Brooks v. Nacrelli’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2008
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1971 (Civil Rights Act of 1957) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973I (§ 11 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 1501 · 5 U.S.C. § 1502 · 5 U.S.C. § 1504 · 5 U.S.C. § 1508
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Reynolds v. Sims · Ker v. California · Powell v. Power · Ginsberg v. New York
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a)ll citizens of the United States who are otherwise qualified by law to vote ... shall be entitled and allowed to vote at all ... elections, without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Good v. Roy · Washington v. Finlay““No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, coerce, or attempt to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any other person for the purpose of interfering with the right of such other person to vote or to vote as he may choose . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Good v. Roy“'the Constitution of the United States protects the right of all qualified citizens to vote, in state as well as in federal elections'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Neal v. Gresham
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.