856 F. Supp. 1409 - DeWitt v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 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 · Shaw v. Reno · United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh, Inc. v. Carey · Voinovich v. Quilter · Davis v. Bandemer
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“looked at race ... as one of the many factors to be considered,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This case ... involves the constitutionality of a redistrieting plan that created majority-minority districts in a manner that was consistent with traditional redistrieting principles, not based solely on race, and not involving extremely irregular boundaries. It involves the question left open by the Court in Shaw .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e conclude that in the context of redistricting, where race is considered only in applying traditional redistricting principles along with the requirements of the Voting Rights Act, that strict scrutiny is not required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Mortham
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.