Clark v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2017
9 federal appellate · 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 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973D (§ 6 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Thornburg v. Gingles · Wells v. Edwards · Campos v. City of Baytown · Citizens for Better Gretna v. City of Gretna Louisiana
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether there is a significant lack of responsiveness on the part of elected officials to the particularized needs of the members of the minority group.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.