Lane v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
307 U.S. 268 · 1939
Citation profile
344 federal appellate · 59 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,001 later decisions (172 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2023 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Baker v. Carr (1962)
344 federal appellate · 59 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLane v. Wilson (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Sawyer · Nixon v. Herndon · Guinn v. United States
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 1,001 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he right of citizens of the United States to vote . . . on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Fifteenth Amendment secures freedom from discrimination on account of race in matters affecting the franchise,”
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.