Loving v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1967), Baehr v. Lewin (1993)
6 federal appellate · 23 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
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · McLaughlin v. Florida · Plessy v. Ferguson · Maynard v. Hill · Brown v. Board of Education
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that there is an overriding state interest in the institution of marriage”); Naim v. Naim, 197 Va. 80 , 87 S.E.2d 749, 751-56 (1955) (upholding miscegenation laws) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be reasonable, having due regard to the nature of the offense, the background of the offender and the surrounding circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. NUCKLOES v. Com.“sentences ... will ... be vacated and set aside.”
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.