Colorado v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
919 F.2d 131 · 1990
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2016
12 federal appellate · 3 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. § 1443 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447
Relies on Georgia v. Rachel · Johnson v. Mississippi · Naugle v. Oklahoma
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, it must appear that the right allegedly denied the removal petitioner arises under a federal law 'providing for specific civil rights stated in terms of racial equality.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]gainst any person who is denied or cannot enforce in the courts of such State a right under any law providing for the equal civil rights of citizens of the United States, or of all persons within the jurisdiction thereof....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that he is being denied a right arising under a federal law 'providing for specific civil rights stated in terms of racial equality.”
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.