fencing out
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 380 U.S. 89 - Carrington v. Rash · 1965Most cited · 1,447 citing opinions
Fencing out' from the franchise a sector of the population because of the way they may vote is constitutionally impermissible
How often courts cite the case defining “fencing out”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “fencing out” — 1,438 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.