Bryan v. Liburd’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 2024
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 48 U.S.C. § 1571 · 48 U.S.C. § 1572
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Baker v. Carr · Powell v. McCormack · Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Snowden v. Hughes
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature shall be the sole judge of the elections and qualifications of its members, shall have and exercise all the authority and attributes, inherent in legislative assemblies ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richards v. Jones
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.