Utah v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
116 federal appellate · 78 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 317 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Dennis v. United States (1951), Castro v. United States (2003)
116 federal appellate · 78 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 13 U.S.C. § 1 (Census Address List Improvement Act of 1994) · 13 U.S.C. § 141 · 13 U.S.C. § 195 · 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 2 U.S.C. § 2A
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Allen v. Wright · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Bennett v. Spear
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 317 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we may assume it is substantially likely that the President and other executive and congressional officials would abide by an authoritative interpretation of the census statute and constitutional provision by the District Court, even though they would not be directly bound by such a determination”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“would amount to a significant increase in the likelihood that the plaintiff would obtain relief that directly redresses the injury suffered.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a strong constitutional interest in accuracy,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ross · State v. Ross
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.