Baker v. Cuomo’s Empirical Analysis
58 F.3d 814 · 1995
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Hayden v. Paterson (2010), The Clorox Company Puerto Rico the Proctor Gamble Commercial Company (2000)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 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 Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Haines v. Kerner · Gomez v. Toledo · Thornburg v. Gingles
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have no vote at all ... they do not appear to have standing to raise a vote dilution claim on behalf of themselves as incarcerated felons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t can scarcely be deemed unreasonable for a state to decide that perpetrators of serious crimes shall not take part in electing the legislators who make the laws, the executives who enforce these, the prosecutors who must try them for further violations, or the judges who are to consider their cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woodruff v. Wyoming“[t]he right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Muntaqim v. Coombe
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.