Oregon v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
302 federal appellate · 120 district · 152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,129 later decisions (132 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Furman v. Georgia (1972), Hudson v. Palmer (1984)
302 federal appellate · 120 district · 152 state decisions — followed in 21 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973B (§ 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Baker v. Carr · Townsend v. Sain · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
Cited together with Katzenbach v. Morgan · South Carolina v. Katzenbach · Reynolds v. Sims · Dunn v. Blumstein · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer
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 1,129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“standard is really to deny a State any choice at all, because no State could demonstrate a”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“No function is more essential to the separate and independent existence of the States and their governments than the power to determine within the limits of the Constitution the qualifications of their own voters for state, county, and municipal offices and the nature of their own machinery for filling local public offices.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]s broad as the congressional enforcement power is, it is not unlimited”
10 later decisions 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.