Roudebush v. Hartke’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 12 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 265 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman (1983), Mitchum v. Foster (1972)
91 federal appellate · 12 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 16 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Powell v. McCormack · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Prentis v. Atlantic Coast Line Co. · Toucey v. New York Life Insurance
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 265 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless Congress Acts, Art. I, § 4, empowers the States to regulate the conduct of senatorial elections.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“investigates, declares and enforces liabilities as they stand on present or past facts and under laws supposed already to exist.”
4 later decisions 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.