Farrakhan v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
338 F.3d 1009 · 2003
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Gonzalez v. Arizona (2012), Johnson v. Governor of Florida (2005)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Thornburg v. Gingles · South Carolina v. Katzenbach · City of Mobile v. Bolden · Chisom v. Roemer
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1 Disenfranchised felons in Washington remain ineligible to vote until they have completed all the requirements of their sentences and have obtained certificates of discharge under Section 9.94A.637 of the Revised Code of Washington (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“results in a denial or abridgement of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“increasing sophistication with which the states were denying racial minorities the right to vote.”
2 later decisions 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.