Williams v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
677 F.2d 510 · 1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2024
5 federal appellate · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Warth v. Seldin · Weinberger v. Salfi · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we have seen, however, the exclusion of felons from the vote has an affirmative sanction in § 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment, a sanction which was not present in the case of the other restrictions on the franchise which were invalidated in the cases on which respondents rely.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Madison v. State“interest in retaining his right to vote is constitutionally distinguishable from the `right to vote' claims of individuals who are not felons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Madison v. State
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.