Brown v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016
1 federal appellate · 11 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 13 U.S.C. § 1 (Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994) · 2 U.S.C. § 2A · 2 U.S.C. § 3
Relies on Smiley v. Holm · Parker v. State ex rel. Powell · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Cunningam · Denney v. State ex rel. Basler · State ex rel. Lamb v. Cunningham
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the circumstances, we are forced to the conclusion, as already indicated, that chapter 23 of the Acts of Assembly of 1932 is invalid, and that it necessarily follows that there is no valid act reapportioning the nine representatives to which Virginia is entitled in the House of Representatives in Congress, and that it will be necessary for the electors in the State at large, to select the nine members to represent the State in the national legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butcher v. Rice
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.