Harper v. Levi’s Empirical Analysis
520 F.2d 53 · 1975
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1995 · most notably Morris v. Gressette (1977), 433 F. Supp. 1325 - Alabama Nursing Home Ass'n v. Califano (1977)
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · United States v. O'Brien · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · United States v. American Trucking Associations
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not have the purpose and will not have the effect of denying or abridging the right to vote on account of race of color,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not challenging findings by the Attorney General on issues of fact, or an ultimate decision as to whether the submitting authority has discharged its burden of proving lack of discriminatory purpose or effect,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morris v. Gressette“only upon a showing of 'clear and convincing evidence' of a contrary legislative intent should the courts restrict access to judicial review.”
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.