Phillips v. Rockefeller’s Empirical Analysis
435 F.2d 976 · 1970
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2018
5 federal appellate · 2 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of ch[oo]sing Senators. Citing precedent of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Plaintiffs maintain that Article I, section 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baber v. Dunlap“New York has permitted the candidate for United States Senate who receives the highest number of votes, even if that number be a mere plurality, to be duly elected,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baber v. Dunlap“would be in accord with the mandate of the Seventeenth Amendment that Senators be 'elected by the people.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baber v. Dunlap
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.