Owens v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
711 F.2d 25 · 1983
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Wesley v. Collins (1986), Madison v. State (2007)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Hewitt v. Helms · Dunn v. Blumstein · Price v. Johnston · Bullock v. Carter · Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial Officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right of convicted felons to vote is not 'fundamental,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. State · Baker v. Cuomo“participation in rebellion, or other crimes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baker v. Cuomo · Wesley v. Collins
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.