Perdue v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably In Re Is (2005), Barrett v. State (2012)
26 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 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Buckley v. Valeo · William Marbury v. James Madison · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer · Nixon v. Administrator of General Services
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he legislature, and not the courts, is empowered by the Constitution to decide public policy, and to implement that policy by enacting laws; and the courts are bound to follow such laws if constitutional.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The core legislative function is the establishment of public policy through the enactment of laws.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The separation of powers principle is sufficiently flexible to permit practical arrangements in a complex government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.