Davis v. McCarty’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
4
states following
March 1993
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Jones v. Freeman · Latting v. Cordell · Brown v. State Election Board of the Oklahoma · Romine v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Oklahoma Supreme Court may never be authorized to act, or fail to act, so as to put an end to the existence of any co-ordinate branch of state government, and any co-ordinate branch of state government may not be permitted to destroy itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“appropriate remedy sufficient to preserve it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.