Grovey v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
295 U.S. 45 · 1935
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 9 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936), Smith v. Allwright (1944)
23 federal appellate · 9 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Nixon v. Herndon · Nixon v. Condon · Tinsley v. Anderson · Love v. Wilcox
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all white citizens of the State of Texas who are qualified to vote under the Constitution and laws of the State shall be eligible to membership in the Democratic party and as such entitled to participate in its deliberations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Allwright“the highest state court in which a decision may be had”
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.