Strauder v. West Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
100 U.S. 303 · 1879
Citation profile
467 federal appellate · 92 district · 645 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,765 later decisions (209 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Baker v. Carr (1962)
467 federal appellate · 92 district · 645 state decisions — followed in 48 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · United States v. Reese · Edward Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Cited together with Batson v. Kentucky · Swain v. State of Alabama · Norris v. State of Alabama · Hernandez v. Texas · Smith v. Texas
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 1,765 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“protection of life and liberty against race or color prejudice.”
75 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“petit jury composed in whole or in part of persons of his own race.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * No State shall * * * deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Elk v. Wilkins · Davis v. Beason
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.