Carrington v. Rash’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
266 federal appellate · 153 district · 378 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,447 later decisions (158 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Roe v. Wade (1973), City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center (1985)
266 federal appellate · 153 district · 378 state decisions — followed in 41 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
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · United States v. Classic · Schneider v. State · McLaughlin v. Florida
Cited together with Reynolds v. Sims · Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15 · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Dunn v. Blumstein · Shapiro v. Thompson
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 1,447 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have broad powers to determine the conditions under which the right of suffrage will be exercised.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Maryland may, of course, require that “all applicants for the vote actually fulfill the requirements of bona fide residence.” Carrington v. Rash, 380 U.S. 89, 96 [ 85 S.Ct. 775, 780 , 13 L.Ed.2d 675 (1965)]. “But if they are in fact residents, with the intention of making [the State] their home indefinitely, they, as all other qualified residents, have a right to an equal opportunity for political representation.” Id., at 94 [ 85 S.Ct. 775 at 779 ],”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'fencing out' from the franchise a sector of the population because of the way they may vote is constitutionally impermissible.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ball v. James · Bogert v. Kinzer
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.