Coleman v. Ritchie’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2013
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1973F (§ 8 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on O'Ferrall v. Colby · Moon v. Harris · Hunt v. Hoffman · Rolvaag v. Donovan · State ex rel. Thompson v. Common Council
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the voter’s name and address on the return envelope were the same as the information provided on the absentee ballot application; (2) the voter’s signature on the return envelope was the genuine signature of the individual who made the application for an absentee ballot, and the certificate of eligibility to vote by absentee ballot had been completed as prescribed in the directions for casting an absentee ballot; (3) the voter was registered and eligible to vote in the precinct or had included a properly completed voter registration application in the return envelope; and (4) the voter had not already voted in that election, either in person or by absentee ballot.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.