Fulani v. Hogsett’s Empirical Analysis
917 F.2d 1028 · 1990
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably St. Thomas-St. John Board of Elections v. Daniel (2007), Ross v. State Board of Elections (2005)
12 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Allen v. Wright · Williams v. Rhodes · Sloan v. Hicks · Moore v. Ogilvie · McSurely v. McClellan
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s time passes, the state's interest in proceeding with the election increases in importance as resources are committed and irrevocable decisions are made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The candidate's and party's claims to be respectively a serious candidate and a serious party with a serious injury become less credible by their having slept on their rights.”
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.