Bush v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1991
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 2 U.S.C. § 2A · 2 U.S.C. § 3 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Baker v. Carr · Townsend v. Sain · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The simple constitutional fact is that so far as (a) the standard of composition of the Congress is concerned, as distinguished perhaps from (b) the standard governing the time and circumstance permitting or requiring judicial intervention, Members of Congress are to be elected on the basis of population and nothing else.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““THIRD: Pending enactment by the State of Texas of substitute legislation in the place of said Art. 197a, all Members of Congress for the State of Texas shall be nominated and elected from the State at large; * * * “FIFTH: The Court retains jurisdiction of the cause for such other and further orders as may be required.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bush v. Martin
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.