Davis v. Chiles’s Empirical Analysis
139 F.3d 1414 · 1998
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Burton v. City of Belle Glade (1999), Bradley v. Work (1998)
17 federal appellate ·
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. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Thornburg v. Gingles · Shaw v. Reno · Miller v. Johnson · Chisom v. Roemer · Bush v. Al Vera Lawson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]lections of minority candidates during the pendency of Section Two litigation ... have little probative value.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] court must apply strict scrutiny to predominately race-based redistricting or reapportionment plans. In order to determine whether race is the predominant factor underlying a particular district’s design, a court must find that a district-drawer has subordinated traditional race-neutral districting principles (such as geographical compactness, contiguity, and respect for political subdivisions) to race. A court may base such a finding either on circumstantial evidence regarding a district’s shape and demographics or on direct evidence of a district-drawer’s purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“abolish a particular form of government and ... use its imagination to fashion a new system. Nothing in the Voting Rights Act suggests an intent on the part of Congress to permit the federal judiciary to force on the states a new model of government; moreover, from a pragmatic standpoint, federal courts simply lack legal standards for choosing among alternatives.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bradley v. Work
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.