Woodsum v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973A (§ 3 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Reynolds v. Sims · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Shapiro v. Thompson · Dunn v. Blumstein
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those bona fide residents ... who do not fulfill the durational residency requirements of [the challenged law] but who are otherwise qualified to register and vote”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. J.D. v. Azar
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.