WESTERMANN Et Al. v. NELSON, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ARIZONA’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably 74 Ill. 2d 329 - People v. Vriner (1978), Graddick, Attorney General of Alabama v. Newman Et Al. (1981)
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
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.
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.
“[O]ne in my position cannot give relief in a responsible way when the application is as tardy as this one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“orderly election processes would likely be disrupted . . . ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.