9 Cal. 3d 199 - Ramirez v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Richardson v. Ramirez (1974), In Re Marriage Cases (2008)
7 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
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 Roe v. Wade · Dunn v. Blumstein · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Bullock v. Carter · Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“modern statutes regulating the voting process and penalizing its misuse-rather than outright disfranchisement of persons convicted of crime-is today the method of preventing election fraud”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Ellisor“whether the disfranchisement of all persons who have been convicted of crime violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Ellisor
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.