Bartlett v. Stephenson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Clark v. Roemer · Lopez v. Monterey County · Stephenson v. Bartlett · William v. Cenarrusa · Whalen v. Roe a-368
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No plan submitted by the General Assembly and approved by this court, or in the absence of such a plan, no plan adopted by the court, shall be administered in the 2002 elections until such time as it is precleared pursuant to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is no plan in North Carolina to hold elections in unprecleared districts, there are no grounds for granting a stay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.