In Re Sanchez’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2025
2 federal appellate · 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1973B (§ 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973F (§ 8 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on In Re Canales · Dallas Merchant's & Concessionaire's Ass'n v. City of Dallas · City of Brookside Village v. Comeau · In Re Gamble · City of Houston v. Todd
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“possess the full power of self government and look to the Legislature not for grants of power but only for limitations on their power.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the extent it conflicts with the state statute”
1 later decision 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.