Wolf v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions

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.

1. “The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Rosenbrahn v. Daugaard

2. “(1) whether the class has been subjected to a history of discrimination; (2) whether individuals in the class are able to contribute to society to the same extent as others; (3) whether the characteristic defining the class is immutable; and (4) whether the class is politically powerless.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Boyden v. Conlin

3. “It would be an understatement to say that the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on issues similar to those raised in Baker has developed substantially since 1972.”), aff'd sub nom. Baskin v. Bogan, 766 F.3d 648 (7th Cir.2014); Whitewood v. Wolf, 992 F.Supp.2d 410, 419 (M.D.Pa.2014) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Rosenbrahn v. Daugaard