Fletcher v. Marino’s Empirical Analysis
882 F.2d 605 · 1989
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Brown v. Eli Lilly & Co. (2011), Harriscom Svenska AB v. Harris Corp. (1991)
14 federal appellate ·
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. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 5 U.S.C. § 7324
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Babbitt v. United Farm Workers National Union · Anderson v. Celebrezze · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither told the parties how their leaders will be selected nor hampered the leaders' role within the party. All that it [did was] to limit such leaders' outside activities in one small aspect. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Kraham v. Lippman“limit[ing] such leaders' outside activities in one small aspect . . . in furtherance of the rational and legitimate goal of deterring improper political influence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Kraham v. Lippman“[w]here the reasons for the entry of judgment [we]re obvious... and a remand to the district court would result only in unnecessary delay in the appeal process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Bert v. Vargo
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.