Wolpoff v. Cuomo’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 2020
2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1362 · 28 U.S.C. § 1443 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Quern v. Jordan · Hutto v. Finney · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley
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.
“It is untenable to argue ... that Congress intended that the statute could or should be used by legislators sued solely because of their refusals to cast votes in a certain way.”
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.