Williams v. Sclafani’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Shelley v. Kraemer · Allen v. State Board of Elections · Heyman v. Commerce & Industry Insurance · Perkins v. Matthews · Sonesta International Hotels Corp. v. Wellington Associates
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a declaratory judgment that such qualification, prerequisite, standard, practice, or procedure does not have the purpose. and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race or color, ....” Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eccles v. Gargiulo
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.