490 F. Supp. 2d 968 - Duwe v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2023
1 district · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Republican Party of Minnesota v. White · Spargo v. New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct · Buckley v. Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board · Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. v. Schober · Perry v. Village of Arlington Heights
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.
“is nothing more than acknowledgement of the inescapable truth that thoughtful judicial minds are likely to have considered many issues and formed opinions on them prior to addressing the issue in the context of a case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a judge's propensity to decide cases consistent with statements made or opinions expressed during a campaign tend to demonstrate that he or she is acting on personal principles previously stated and not deciding the pending case on the basis of 'partisan interests, public clamor or fear of criticism.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with respect to cases, controversies, or issues that are likely to come before the court.”
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.