Chisom v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 1056 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2007 · most notably Chisom v. Roemer (1991), Westwego Citizens for Better Government v. City of Westwego (1989)
19 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Washington v. Davis · Thornburg v. Gingles · Allen v. State Board of Elections · South Carolina v. Katzenbach · City of Mobile v. Bolden
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all action necessary to make a vote effective in any primary, special or general election ... with respect to candidates for public or party office and propositions for which votes are received in an election.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'political subdivision' encompasses all governmental units, including city and county councils, school boards, judicial districts, utility districts, as well as state legislatures.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to elect representatives of their choice.”
3 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.