Alexander v. Virginia’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 3 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1997 · most notably McKinney v. Alabama (1976), Matter of Humphreys (1994)
50 federal appellate · 3 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 19 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 Miller v. California · Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton · United States v. 12 200-Ft. Reels of Super 8MM. Film · Heller v. New York · Kingsley Books, Inc. v. Brown
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A trial by jury is not constitutionally required in this state civil proceeding pursuant to § 18.1-236.3 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended.” 413 U.S. at 836.”
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.