Scholle v. Hare’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Reynolds v. Sims (1964), Gray v. Sanders (1963)
12 district · 18 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
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Scholle v. Secretary of State · In Re Hartley
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the first to consider the merits of the federal constitutional claim free from any doubt of its justiciability.”
1 later decision 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.