Gunaji v. MacIas’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4 district · 119 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably American Civil Liberties Union v. City of Albuquerque (2008), Cobb v. State Canvassing Board (2006)
4 district · 119 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 28 U.S.C. § 1441
Relies on National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Weinstein v. Bradford · United States v. James Griggs Raines · Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered v. United States · City of Milwaukee v. Illinois
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o election can be free and equal ... if any substantial number of persons entitled to vote are denied the right to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“All elections shall be free and open, and no power, civil or military, shall at any time interfere to prevent the free exercise of the right of suffrage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fundamental principle that an election is only `free and equal' if the ballot allows the voter to choose between the lawful candidates for that office”
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.