McGhee’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Nixon v. Kent County (1996), Cane v. Worcester County (1994)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 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
Relies on Thornburg v. Gingles · United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburgh, Inc. v. Carey · Chapman v. Meier · White v. Weiser · Upham v. Seamon
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“violates anew constitutional or statutory voting rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Covington v. North Carolina · Edna Hines Inell Thomas James Reynolds Ahoskie Civic Association v. Mayor and Town Council of Ahoskie, and Christine Callis, in Her Official Capacity as Supervisor of Elections of Hertford County Hertford County Board of Elections, Edna Hines Inell Thomas James Reynolds Ahoskie Civic Association v. Mayor and Town Council of Ahoskie, and Christine Callis, in Her Official Capacity as Supervisor of Elections of Hertford County Hertford County Board of Elections“proportional representation as the ultimate standard for assessing the legal adequacy of a remedial legislative redistricting plan.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Marylanders for Fair Representation, Inc. v. Schaefer · Edna Hines Inell Thomas James Reynolds Ahoskie Civic Association v. Mayor and Town Council of Ahoskie, and Christine Callis, in Her Official Capacity as Supervisor of Elections of Hertford County Hertford County Board of Elections, Edna Hines Inell Thomas James Reynolds Ahoskie Civic Association v. Mayor and Town Council of Ahoskie, and Christine Callis, in Her Official Capacity as Supervisor of Elections of Hertford County Hertford County Board of Elections“the maximum extent to which a particular dilution may be remedied ... is constrained by the size ... element[ ] of the dilution concept,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Edna Hines Inell Thomas James Reynolds Ahoskie Civic Association v. Mayor and Town Council of Ahoskie, and Christine Callis, in Her Official Capacity as Supervisor of Elections of Hertford County Hertford County Board of Elections, Edna Hines Inell Thomas James Reynolds Ahoskie Civic Association v. Mayor and Town Council of Ahoskie, and Christine Callis, in Her Official Capacity as Supervisor of Elections of Hertford County Hertford County Board of Elections · Hines
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.