549 F. Supp. 494 - Busbee v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably Miller v. Johnson (1995), Abrams v. Johnson (1997)
5 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 2 U.S.C. § 7 · 2 U.S.C. § 8 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Washington v. Davis · Reynolds v. Sims · Morton v. Mancari · Maine v. Thiboutot
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failure to elect at the time prescribed by law,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“absolutely require[d] that the general election be held on November 2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“preclude holding an election on [the date established by section 7].”
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.