North Carolina v. Convington’s Empirical Analysis
581 U.S. 486 · 2017
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Committee to Recall Menendez v. Wells (2010), North Carolina v. Covington (2018)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Hampton County Election Commission · New York v. Cathedral Academy
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obvious considerations include the severity and nature of the particular constitutional violation, the extent of the likely disruption to the ordinary processes of governance if early elections are imposed, and the need to act with proper judicial restraint when intruding on state sovereignty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court therefore must undertake an equitable weighing process to select a fitting remedy for the legal violations it has identified, taking account of what is necessary, what is fair, and what is workable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Relief in redistricting cases is fashioned in the light of well-known principles of equity.”
2 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.