Clarke v. R’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2023
2 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 California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Thornburg v. Gingles · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Whitcomb v. Chavis · Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Washington
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no reason to find that blacks' preferred black candidates have 'usually' been defeated”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“47 percent of blacks' preferred black candidates were elected”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[W]e do not foreclose the consideration of electoral races involving only white candidates where the record indicates that one of the candidates was strongly preferred by black voters.... Where black voters have a genuine candidate of choice in an election involving only white candidates, then the results will be relevant to the question of whether racial bloc voting enables the white majority usually to defeat the minority’s preferred candidate.”
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.