Chapman v. King’s Empirical Analysis
154 F.2d 460 · 1946
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Gray v. Sanders (1963), McCleskey v. Kemp (1985)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 8 U.S.C. § 31
Relies on United States v. Classic · Smith v. Allwright · Love v. Wilcox · 62 F. Supp. 639 - King v. Chapman
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Where] the State . . . collaborates in the conduct of the [party] primary, and puts its power behind the rules of the party [, i]t adopts the primary as a part of the public election machinery.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paige v. Gray
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.