Rucho v. Common Cause’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Xin Liu v. Amway Corp. (2003), June Medical Services L. L. C. v. Russo (2020)
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 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 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 2 U.S.C. § 2C · 52 U.S.C. § 10101
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Elrod v. Burns · Flast v. Cohen · Washington v. Davis · Reynolds v. Sims
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'judicial action must be governed by standard, by rule,' and must be 'principled, rational, and based upon reasoned distinctions' found in the Constitution or laws.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[p]artisan gerrymandering claims invariably sound in a desire for proportional representation”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“is entrusted to one of the political branches,”
3 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.