White v. Weiser’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
111 federal appellate · 81 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 606 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Miller v. Johnson (1995), Gaffney v. Cummings (1973)
111 federal appellate · 81 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 17 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 · Wesberry v. Sanders · White v. Regester · Whitcomb v. Chavis · Burns v. Richardson
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 606 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In fashioning a reapportionment plan or in choosing among plans, a district court should not pre-empt the legislative task nor 'intrude upon state policy any more than necessary.'”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buskey v. Oliver · Smith v. Clark“From the beginning, we have recognized that reapportionment is primarily a matter for legislative consideration and determination.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“decisions [ ] made by the legislature in pursuit of what were deemed important state interests,”
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.