Mallory v. Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
173 F.3d 377 · 1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019
3 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 · Johnson v. De Grandy · White v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc. · Westwego Citizens for Better Government v. City of Westwego · McMillan v. Escambia County
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be able to demonstrate that it is sufficiently large and geographically compact to constitute a majority in a single-member district.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““if, based on the totality of circumstances, it is shown that the political processes leading to nomination or election in the State or political subdivision are not equally open to participation by members of [a racial group] in that its members have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.” 42 U.S. C. § 1973(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a minority group does not tend to vote together, the challenged electoral system cannot be responsible for the group's alleged inability to elect candidates of its choice.”
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.