McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
375 federal appellate · 142 district · 591 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,731 later decisions (95 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Delaware v. Prouse (1979), Preiser v. Rodriguez (1973)
375 federal appellate · 142 district · 591 state decisions — followed in 40 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 · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Douglas v. People of State of California · Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Cited together with McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Dandridge v. Williams · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Shapiro v. Thompson · Dunn v. Blumstein
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 1,731 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statutory classifications will be set aside only if no grounds can be conceived to justify them.”
76 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“p. 609. The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution finds its counterpart in Sections 1 and 2 of the Bill of Rights of the Kansas Constitution which declare respectively that”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) those who are absent from the county of their residence for any reason whatever; (2) those who are ‘physically incapacitated,’ so long as they present an affidavit to that effect from a licensed physician if”
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.