Hadnott v. Amos’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 21 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Holder v. Hall (1994), Morris v. Gressette (1977)
77 federal appellate · 21 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Williams v. Rhodes · Allen v. State Board of Elections · In Re Herndon
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 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Despite these consistently expansive constructions of § 5, appellants contend that the Attorney General and District Court erred in treating Rule 58 as a “standard, practice, or procedure with respect to voting” rather than as simply “a means of getting a full days work for a full days pay — nothing more and nothing less.” Brief for Appellants 20. In appellants’ view, Congress did not intend to subject all internal personnel measures affecting political activity to federal superintendence. The Board mischaracterizes its policy. Rule 58 is not a neutral personnel practice governing all forms of absenteeism. Rather, it specifically addresses the electoral process, singling out candidacy for elective office as a disabling activity. Although not in form a filing fee, the Rule operates in precisely the same fashion. By imposing substantial economic disincentives on employees who wish to seek elective office, the Rule burdens entry into elective campaigns and, concomitantly, limits the choices available to Dougherty County voters. Given the potential loss of thousands of dollars by employees subject to Rule 58, the Board’s policy could operate as a more substantial inhibition on entry into the elective process than many of the filing-fee changes involving only hundreds of dollars to which the Attorney General has successfully interposed objections. That Congress was well aware of these objections is apparent from the Committee Reports supporting extension of the Act in 1975. S.Rep.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“increasing the difficulty for an independent candidate to gain a position on the general election ballot”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arakaki“Unequal application of the same law to different racial groups has an especially invidious connotation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Toney v. White
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.