Dandridge v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2,103 federal appellate · 754 district · 2,351 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7,906 later decisions (396 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Batson v. Kentucky (1986)
2,103 federal appellate · 754 district · 2,351 state decisions — followed in 49 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 Goldberg v. Kelly · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc.
Cited together with McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Shapiro v. Thompson · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co.
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 7,906 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not made with mathematical nicety or because in practice it results in some inequality.”
502 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The prevailing party may, of course, assert in a reviewing court any ground in support of his judgment, whether or not that ground was relied upon or even considered by the trial court.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he starting point of the statutory analysis must be a recognition that the federal law gives each State great latitude in dispensing its available funds.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.