Lawrence v. Blackwell’s Empirical Analysis
430 F.3d 368 · 2005
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Jordan v. Sosa (2011), Libertarian Party v. Blackwell (2006)
22 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Dunn v. Blumstein · Honig v. Doe · Weinstein v. Bradford · County of Los Angeles v. Davis
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the second prong [of the Weinstein test] is somewhat relaxed in election cases. Courts have applied the capable of repetition yet evading review exception to hear challenges to election laws even when the nature of the law made it clear that the plaintiff would not suffer the same harm in the future.” Lawrence, 430 F.3d at 372 . See also Honig v. Doe, 484 U.S. 305, 335-36 , 108 S.Ct. 592 , 98 L.Ed.2d 686 (1988) (Scalia, J., dissenting) (observing that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ur concern in these cases, as in all others involving potentially moot claims, was whether the controversy was capable of repetition and not ... whether the claimant had demonstrated that a recurrence of the dispute was more probable than not.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the challenged action [is] in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to its cessation or expiration, and (2) there [is] a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party [will] be subjected to the same action again.”
2 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.