White v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Johnson (1991), City of Claremont v. Truell (1985)
3 district · 45 state decisions
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams · Greene v. Lindsey · Canaan v. Enfield Village Fire District
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A statute will not be construed to be unconstitutional where it is susceptible to a construction rendering it constitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.