Dusch v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
123 federal appellate · 58 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 435 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably City of New Orleans v. Dukes (1976), Moore v. Ogilvie (1969)
123 federal appellate · 58 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDavis v. Dusch (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1254
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Fortson v. Dorsey · Moody v. Flowers · Sailors v. Board of Ed. of Kent Cty.
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 435 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he constitutional test under the Equal Protection Clause is whether there is an 'invidious' discrimination.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Four members are elected at large without regard to residence. Seven are elected by the voters of the entire city, one being required to reside in each of the seven boroughs.”
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.