Unity Party v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.2d 59 · 1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably 40 Cal. 3d 703 - Canaan v. Abdelnour (1985), Schulz
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Williams v. Rhodes · Anderson v. Celebrezze · Storer v. Brown · Bullock v. Carter · McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An analysis of statutory language alone will not reveal the true dimension of a claimed denial of [voting] rights. We must also examine the nature, extent and likely effect of the law on the interest of those claiming to be fenced out by it. Only then can it be determined whether there exists a significant burden on fundamental rights or on a protected class such that heightened scrutiny is mandated. When the full scope of the obstacle to the exercise of these rights and the burden on the class is revealed, then the inquiry turns to the State’s interests that purport to justify it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Nothing before us indicates that compliance with the acknowledged acceptance requirement is difficult. There is no evidence in the record that compliance is time-consuming, complex or imposes any financial hardship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Manifold v. Blunt“We must [ ] examine the nature, extent and likely effect of the law on the interests of those claiming to be fenced out by it.”
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.