O'Hair v. White’s Empirical Analysis
675 F.2d 680 · 1982
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably League of United Latin American Citizens, Council No. 4434 v. Clements (1993), Cate v. Oldham (1983)
54 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 Warth v. Seldin · Younger v. Harris · Baker v. Carr · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Monroe v. Pape
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) its members would otherwise have standing to sue in their own right; (b) the interests it seeks to protect are germane to the organization's purpose; and (c) neither the claim asserted nor the relief requested requires the participation of individual members in the lawsuit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in the most extraordinary circumstances when fundamental rights such as voting rights are involved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“injury may be to rights existing solely by virtue of a ... constitution”
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.