Washington v. Tensas Parish School Board’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 609 · 1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2023
4 federal appellate ·
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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Thornburg v. Gingles · White v. Regester · Chlorine Institute, Inc. v. Occupational Safety & Health Administration · Rogers v. Lodge
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“elected in numbers equal to their proportion in the population.”
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.