McCain v. Lybrand’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Johnson v. De Grandy (1994), Shaw v. Reno (1993)
10 federal appellate · 14 district · 12 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.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Allen v. State Board of Elections · South Carolina v. Katzenbach · City of Mobile v. Bolden · Reamer v. Beall
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the right to reexamine this submission if additional information that would otherwise require an objection comes to his attention during the remainder of the sixty-day review period."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of denying or abridging the right to vote on account or race or color....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in some unambiguous and recordable manner.”
3 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.