voter qualification
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 383 U.S. 663 - Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · 1966Most cited · 2,596 citing opinions
A State violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment whenever it makes the affluence of the voter or payment of any fee an electoral standard. Voter qualifications have no relation to wealth nor to paying or not paying this or any other tax. Wealth, like race, creed, or color, is not germane to one's ability to participate intelligently in the electoral process.
How often courts cite the case defining “voter qualification”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “voter qualification” — 2,575 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.