348 F. Supp. 780 - Ramey v. Rockefeller’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2005
10 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1971 (Civil Rights Act of 1957)
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Dunn v. Blumstein · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) For the purpose of registering and voting no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States, nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this state, or of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while a student of any institution of learning; nor while kept at any welfare institution, asylum or other institution wholly or partly supported at public expense or by charity; nor while confined in any public prison . . (Emphasis Supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . Any person applying for registration who claims to belong to any class of persons mentioned in this section shall file with the board taking his registration a written statement showing where he actually resides and where he claims to be legally domiciled, his business or occupation, his business address, and to which class he claims to belong . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he only constitutionally permissible test [for residency] is one which focuses on the individual’s present intention and does not require him to pledge allegiance for an indefinite future. The objective is to determine the place which is the center of the individual’s life now, the locus of his primary concern.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levy v. Scranton · Lloyd v. Babb
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.