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← 438 U.S. 909 - Downs v. Ohio

Downs v. Ohio’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
7
states following
September 2024
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Godfrey v. Georgia (1980), Fullilove v. Klutznick (1980)

4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

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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 State v. Downs · State v. Shelton

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.