Terry v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
644 federal appellate · 115 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,424 later decisions (127 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
644 federal appellate · 115 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 19 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
reviewedAdams v. Terry (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Shelley v. Kraemer · United States v. Classic · Snowden v. Hughes · Swift Company v. United States · United States v. Cruikshank
Cited together with Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Smith v. Allwright · Marsh v. State of Alabama · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Evans v. Newton
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 1,424 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Jaybird primary [had] become an integral part, indeed the only effective part, of the elective process that determines who shall rule and govern in the county.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o State shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““The Amendment bans racial discrimination in voting by both state and nation. It thus establishes a national policy, obviously applicable to the right of Negroes not to be discriminated against as voters in elections to determine public governmental policies or to select public officials, national, state, or local.” 345 U.S. at page 467, 73 S.Ct. at page 812.”
4 later decisions 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.