Wallis v. Blue’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1983
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Baker v. Carr · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · Gray v. Sanders · City of Greenwood v. Peacock
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no federal requirement intended to compel a state to elect any of its officers or agents through popular vote of the people. Fortson v. Morris. . So long as the method is chosen by the people, and the method does not constitute an unreasonable delegation of power, it is sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. X Austin v. Welch
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.