Lyman v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
March 2020
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Reynolds v. Sims
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[h]aving once granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person's vote over that of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyman v. Baker“[t]hey do prevent lower courts from coming to opposite conclusions on the precise issues presented and necessarily decided by those actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyman v. Baker“any other proposed limitation on the selection by the State of its presidential electors would require Constitutional amendment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lyman v. Baker
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.