Wexler v. Lepore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate ·

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Fifteen Florida counties use a paperless, touchscreen method of voting. As is alleged, these touchscreen systems do not produce a paper record of votes. Accordingly, the fifteen counties where they are employed lack a manual recount procedure, which is available in Florida’s remaining fifty-two counties. In the federal claim, Plaintiffs allege this “non-uniform, differential standard” violates their rights to due process and equal protection under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wexler v. Lepore

2. “[I]t has never been suggested that Younger requires abstention in deference to a state judicial proceeding reviewing legislative or executive action. Such a broad abstention requirement would make a mockery of the rule that only exceptional circumstances justify a federal court’s refusal to decide a case in deference to the States.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Blankenship v. Blackwell

3. “a virtually unflagging duty to adjudicate claims within their jurisdiction.” Wexler v. Lepore, 385 F.3d 1336 , 1339 (11th Cir.2004) (quotation marks omitted); see also New Orleans Pub. Serv., Inc. v. Council of the City of New Orleans, 491 U.S. 350 , 358, 109 S.Ct. 2506 , 2513, 105 L.Ed.2d 298 (1989). That duty does not”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Calderon v. Baker Concrete Construction, Inc.