Hobson v. Pow’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2008
6 federal appellate · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Dunn v. Blumstein · Reed v. Reed · Bullock v. Carter · Royster Guano Co v. Commonwealth of Virginia
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not question 'whether a State may constitutionally exclude some or all convicted felons from the franchise.' Richardson v. Ramirez, supra. Instead, it questions whether the state may exclude people from the franchise by treating one sex differently from the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Ellisor“conviction of men for assault and battery against the spouse is a cause for disqualification while the conviction of women for the same offense (was) not disqualifying.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Ellisor
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.