Beatty v. Dinkins’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 42 U.S.C. § 1971 (Civil Rights Act of 1957) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Powell v. Power · Webber v. White · Gangemi v. Sclafani · Beatty v. Esposito
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.
“Were we to embrace plaintiffs’ theory, this court would henceforth be thrust into the details of virtually every election, tinkering with the state’s election machinery, reviewing petitions, registration cards, vote tallies, and certificates of election for all manner of error and insufficiency under state and federal law.... [W]e are not inclined to undertake such a wholesale expansion of our jurisdiction into an area which, with certain narrow and well defined exceptions, has been in the exclusive cognizance of the state courts.”
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.