Evans v. Cornman’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
106 federal appellate · 78 district · 129 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 519 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Dunn v. Blumstein (1972), Anderson v. Celebrezze (1983)
106 federal appellate · 78 district · 129 state decisions — followed in 22 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
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Williams v. Rhodes · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Cannon 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 519 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[B]efore that right [to vote] can be restricted, the purpose of the restriction and the assertedly overriding interest served by it must meet close constitutional scrutiny.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Residents of the federal enclave] are as concerned, with state spending and taxing decisions as other Maryland -residents, for Congress has permitted the States to levy and collect their income, gasoline, sales, and use. taxes — the major sources of state revenues — on federal enclaves. ... State unemployment laws and workmen’s compensation laws likewise apply to persons who live and work in federal areas. ... [NIH • residents] are required to register their automobiles in Maryland and obtain drivers’ permits and license plates from- the State; they are subject to the process and jurisdiction. of State courts; they, themselves can resort to those courts in divorce and child adoption proceedings; and they send their children to Maryland public schools.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'fencing out' from the franchise a sector of the population because of the way they may vote is constitutionally impermissible.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.