Arroyo v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2018
4 federal appellate ·
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. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1971 (Civil Rights Act of 1957) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973A (§ 3 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973B (§ 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 8 U.S.C. § 1402 (§ 302 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Katzenbach v. Morgan · Oregon v. Mitchell · Lau v. Nichols · Louisiana v. United States · Epps v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Chief Judge Lord found that: [T]he ‘right to vote’ means more than the mechanics of marking a ballot or pulling a lever. Here, plaintiffs cannot cast an ‘informed’ or ‘effective’ vote without demonstrating an ability to comprehend the registration and election forms and the ballot itself. The English-only election materials therefore constitute a device ‘conditioning the right to vote’ of plaintiffs on their ability to ‘read, write, understand, or interpret any matter in the English language.’ Such an election process cannot withstand scrutiny under the Voting Rights Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he 'right to vote' means more than the mechanics of marking a ballot or pulling a lever.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madera v. Detzner“encompasses the right to an effective vote.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madera v. Detzner
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.