McDaniel v. Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 45 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 384 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Wainwright v. Witt (1985), Donovan v. Dewey (1981)
78 federal appellate · 45 district · 20 state decisions
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Allen v. State Board of Elections · South Carolina v. Katzenbach · Democratic Party of the United States v. Wisconsin ex rel. La Follette · 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 384 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'requires review of all voting changes prior to implementation by the covered jurisdictions.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“dictum unnecessary to the decision in that case”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As we construe the congressional mandate, it requires that whenever a covered jurisdiction submits a proposal reflecting the policy choices of the elected representatives of the people — no matter what constraints have limited the choices available to them — the preclearance requirement of the Voting Rights Act is applicable.” p. 741.”
2 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.