Terrazas v. Slagle’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Thornburg v. Gingles · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · City of Mobile v. Bolden · Burns v. Richardson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Alternatively, should the opinion of the Department of Justice issue in the next few days, this Court has already reviewed testimony and other evidence on the Senate's substitute plan during the December hearings and finds it fails to satisfy the Sec. 2 requirements of the Voting Rights Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Terrazas v. Slagle“[t]his Court specifically finds that the Quiroz settlement plan is not valid under state law, but merely an alternative proposal submitted to the Court that because of the actions of the Secretary of State happened to receive favorable review by the DOJ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terrazas v. Slagle“the Court is faced with either abiding by existing state law, i.e., the present statutory scheme calling for a March 10, 1992 primary election date, or suspending all proceedings until the Legislature's new proposal postponing the elections takes effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Terrazas v. Slagle
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.