Breedlove v. Suttles’s Empirical Analysis
302 U.S. 277 · 1937
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization (1939)
27 federal appellate · 3 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 16 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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 'The Ku-Klux Cases' Yarbrough · Curt Muller v. State of Oregon · A. Magnano Co. v. Hamilton · Hamilton v. Regents of the University of California · McPherson v. Blacker
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Privilege of voting is not derived from the United States, but is conferred by the State and, save as restrained by the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Amendments and other provisions of the Federal Constitution, the State may condition suffrage as it deems appropriate. Minor v. Happersett, 21 Wall. 162 , 170 et seq. Ex parte Yarbrough, 110 U. S. 651, 664-665 . McPherson v. Blacker, 146 U. S. 1, 37-38 . Guinn v. United States, 238 U. S. 347, 362 . . . .” (p.283.) (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions 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.