Fletcher v. Lamone’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
4 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Washington v. Davis · Reynolds v. Sims · Thornburg v. Gingles
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“broken-winged pterodactyl lying prostrate across the center of the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Benisek v. Lamone
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.