Bacon v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Lawrence (2012), 170 N.C. App. 438 - Clayton v. Branson (2005)
41 state decisions
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Buckley v. Valeo · Gregg v. Georgia · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A primary goal of adjudicatory proceedings is the uniform application of law. In furtherance of this objective, courts generally consider themselves bound by prior precedent, i.e. , the doctrine of stare decisis .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“judicial review of the exercise of clemency power would unreasonably disrupt a core power of the executive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“When resolving challenged classifications under the equal protection clause of the State Constitution, this Court applies the same test used by federal courts under the parallel clause in the United States Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.