Attorney General of Territory of Guam All US Citizens Residing in Guam Qualified to Vote Pursuant to Organic Act v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2016
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Anderson v. Celebrezze · South Carolina v. Katzenbach · Oregon v. Mitchell · 376 F. Supp. 239 - Sanchez 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since Guam... is not a state, it can have no electors, and plaintiffs cannot exercise individual votes in a presidential election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Romeu v. Cohen“constitutional amendment would be required to permit [U.S. citizens living in Guam] to vote in a presidential election”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Romeu v. Cohen
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.