Farrakhan v. Gregoire

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that “[flelon disenfranchisement laws have a long history in the United States,” and that “Congress was no doubt aware of these laws when it enacted the VRA in 1965 and amended it in 1982, yet gave no indication that felon disenfranchisement was in any way suspect”
• “Out-of-circuit cases are not binding on this Court and therefore do not constitute 14 ‘controlling authority.’”
• “Felon disenfranchisement laws have a long history in the United States ... predating] the Jim Crow era and, with a few notable exceptions, have not been adopted based on racial considerations,” (citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

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  Seventh Circuit· 2014-10-06· cited 67×
• Frank v. Walker
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2014-04-29· cited 29×
• Marc Veasey v. Greg Abbott
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-04-27· cited 25×
• Veasey v. Abbott
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-08-05· cited 25×
• Quinn v. Board of Education
  N.D. Illinois· 2017-02-13· cited 7×
• Luna v. Cnty. of Kern
  E.D. California· 2018-02-23· cited 4×
• Thompson v. State
  M.D. Alabama· 2017-12-26· cited 4×
• San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. Jewell
  E.D. California· 2014-10-01· cited 3×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Heck v. Humphrey
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-24· cited 15,294×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Arizona v. California
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-30· cited 1,909×
• Thornburg v. Gingles
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-30· cited 1,221×
• South Carolina v. Katzenbach
  Supreme Court· 1966-05-02· cited 945×
• Allen v. State Board of Elections
  Supreme Court· 1968-10-14· cited 887×
• Chisom v. Roemer
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-20· cited 483×
• Hunter v. Underwood
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-16· cited 419×
• Richardson v. Ramirez
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-24· cited 377×
• Native Village of Noatak v. Edgar Blatchford, as Commissioner, Department of Community and Regional Affairs, State of Alaska
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-10-28· cited 191×
• Ruiz v. City of Santa Maria
  Ninth Circuit· 1998-11-05· cited 100×
• Simmons v. Galvin
  First Circuit· 2009-07-31· cited 75×
• Bunker Ltd. Partnership v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-06-19· cited 65×
• Hayden v. Pataki
  Second Circuit· 2006-05-04· cited 44×
• Jacobus v. Alaska
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-08-12· cited 40×
• Farrakhan v. Washington
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-07-25· cited 26×
• Farrakhan v. Gregoire
  Ninth Circuit· 2010-01-05· cited 25×
• Farrakhan v. Washington
  Ninth Circuit· 2004-02-24· cited 15×
• Larimer v. International Business MacHines Corp.
  Supreme Court· 2004-11-08· cited 8×
• Locke, Governor of Washington v. Farrakhan
  Supreme Court· 2004-11-08· cited 5×