Lewis v. Hughs

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is local election officials, not the Secretary, who verify voters’ signatures and notify voters of a mismatch.”
• “[I]t is local prosecutors, not the Secretary, who are specifically charged with enforcement of the criminal prohibition on possessing a voter’s mail-in ballot.”
• “[T]he statutes themselves refute any notion that the Secretary enforces them.” (citing City of Austin v. Paxton, 943 F.3d 993, 998 (5th Cir. 2019))
• “If the official does not compel or constrain anyone to obey the challenged law, enjoining that official could not stop any ongoing constitutional violation.”
• “[O]ur circuit has struggled to define this ‘connection’ requirement . . . .”
• “[O]ur circuit has struggled to define this ‘connection’ requirement . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pickett v. Texas Tech Univ
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-06-15· cited 53×
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  Fifth Circuit· 2023-09-15· cited 17×
• Healthy Vision Assoc v. Abbott
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-05-23· cited 5×
• National Press v. McCraw
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-10-23· cited 1×
• United States v. Abbott
  Fifth Circuit· 2023-10-27
• United States v. State of Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-07-03
• Un del Pueblo Entero v. Nelson
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-12-31
• United States v. State of Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 2026-04-24

Cites

35 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-12· cited 24,791×
• Younger v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1971-02-23· cited 14,568×
• Baker v. Carr
  Supreme Court· 1962-03-26· cited 6,173×
• Roe v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1973-01-22· cited 5,581×
• Brown v. Board of Education
  Supreme Court· 1954-05-17· cited 3,819×
• Reynolds v. Sims
  Supreme Court· 1964-10-12· cited 3,703×
• San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court· 1973-04-23· cited 3,699×
• West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
  Supreme Court· 1943-06-14· cited 2,477×
• Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority v. Metcalf & Eddy, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-12· cited 2,130×
• Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-28· cited 1,679×
• Brown v. Board of Education
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-31· cited 1,420×
• Lochner v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1905-04-17· cited 1,236×
• Mitchum v. Foster
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-19· cited 1,135×
• Tennessee v. Lane
  Supreme Court· 2004-05-17· cited 1,007×
• Ex Parte Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1880-03-18· cited 907×
• Okpalobi v. Foster
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-03-16· cited 246×
• National Labor Relations Board v. Donnelly Garment Co.
  Supreme Court· 1947-03-03· cited 171×
• City of Austin v. Ken Paxton
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-12-04· cited 154×
• Robert Morris v. Brad Livingston
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-01-10· cited 131×
• United States v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 2021-12-10· cited 112×