George Bush v. Albert Gore’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
181 federal appellate · 68 district · 242 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 825 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Southwest Voter Registration Education Project v. Shelley (2003), 54 Cal. 4th 952 - People v. Tully (2012)
181 federal appellate · 68 district · 242 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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 3 U.S.C. § 1 (Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022) · 3 U.S.C. § 15 · 3 U.S.C. § 5
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Stone v. Powell · Bishop v. Wood
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 825 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Having once granted the right to vote on equal terms, the State may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person's vote over that of another.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the state legislature vests the right to vote for President in its people, the right to vote as the legislature has prescribed is fundamental; and one source of its fundamental nature lies in the equal weight accorded to each vote and the equal dignity owed to each voter.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“specific standards to ensure its equal application.”
10 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.