Sinkfield v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama (2015), Sanders v. Dooly County (2001)
9 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284
Relies on United States v. Hays · Shaw v. Reno · Shaw v. Hunt · Kelley v. Bennett
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellee's suggestion thus boils down to the claim that an unconstitutional use of race in drawing the boundaries of majority-minority districts necessarily involves an unconstitutional use of race in drawing the boundaries of neighboring majority-white districts. We rejected that argument in Hayes , explaining that evidence sufficient to support a Shaw claim with respect to a majority-minority district did not prove anything with respect to a neighboring majority-white district in which the appellees resided.”
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.