Rodriguez v. Bexar County’s Empirical Analysis
385 F.3d 853 · 2004
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2024
5 federal appellate · 1 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Baker v. Carr · Thornburg v. Gingles · Miller v. Johnson · Chisom v. Roemer
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the proper assessment of vote dilution claims is 'peculiarly dependent upon the facts of each case' and requires 'an intensely local appraisal of the design and impact of the contested electoral mechanisms.' " Rodriguez v. Bexar Cnty., Tex. , 385 F.3d 853 , 860 (5th Cir. 2004) (quoting Gingles , 478 U.S. at 79 , 106 S.Ct. 2752 ). "A plaintiff must prove a § 2 violation by a preponderance of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“undercut ... [by] his admission at trial that roughly between 25 and 33 percent of [white] voters would cross over to support the Hispanic candidate of choice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficiently large and geographically compact to constitute a majority in a single member district.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.