Colegrove v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
328 U.S. 549 · 1946
Citation profile
122 federal appellate · 44 district · 161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 663 later decisions (97 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
122 federal appellate · 44 district · 161 state decisions — followed in 30 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41 · 2 U.S.C. § 2 · 2 U.S.C. § 2A
Relies on Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Bell v. Hood · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · United States v. Classic · Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. v. Huffman
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 663 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourts ought not to enter this political thicket.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. South v. Peters · Davis v. Bandemer“[v]iolation of the great guaranty of a republican form of government in States cannot be challenged in the courts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Where a federal court of equity is asked to interfere with the enforcement of state laws, it should do so only `to prevent irreparable injury which is clear and imminent * * *.'" [327 U.S. at 593, 66 S. Ct. at 766, 90 L.Ed. 873 .]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.