Giles v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
189 U.S. 475 · 1903
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 12 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 216 later decisions (52 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Monroe v. Pape (1961)
48 federal appellate · 12 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Hans v. State of Louisiana · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Mansfield Ry Co v. Swan · Mills v. Green · United States v. Cruikshank
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 216 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“relief from [that] great political wrong, if done, as alleged, by the people of a State and the State itself, must be given by them or by the legislative and political department of the government of the United States.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lane v. Wilson · Rizzo v. Goode“all persons who are of good character and who understand the duties and obligations of citizenship under a republican form of government,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“and on behalf of more than five thousand negroes, citizens of the county of Montgomery, Alabama, similarly situated”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lane v. Wilson
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.