Valdespino’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry (2006), Rodriguez v. Pataki (2004)
5 district ·
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
Relies on Thornburg v. Gingles · Johnson v. De Grandy · Growe v. Emison · Voinovich v. Quilter · Karcher v. Daggett
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the minority group must be able to demonstrate that it is sufficiently large and geographically compact to constitute a majority in a single-member district.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Metts v. Almond“Each factor must be proved. Failure to establish any one of these threshold requirements is fatal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The Fifth Circuit] has interpreted the Gingles factors as a bright line test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.