Webber v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2001
6 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 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. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Allen v. State Board of Elections · Ex parte Poresky · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · East Carroll Parish School Board v. Marshall · Perkins v. Matthews
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A single judge may [nevertheless] conduct all proceedings except the trial, and enter all orders permitted by the rules of civil procedure except as provided in this subsection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the most relief that a federal district court can grant to a private litigant under the Allen interpretation of 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1973c”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge ...”
1 later decision 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.