City of Pleasant Grove v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 27 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Miller v. Johnson (1995), Holder v. Hall (1994)
22 federal appellate · 27 district · 3 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 District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Washington v. Davis · Gomillion v. Lightfoot · Allen v. State Board of Elections
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the impermissible purpose of minimizing future black voting strength.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“likely to be developed for use by white persons only,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.