Johnson v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Miller v. Johnson (1995), James B. Hunt, Jr. v. Martin Cromartie (1999)
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations · Edwards v. Aguillard · National Woodwork Manufacturers Ass'n v. National Labor Relations Board · Shaw v. Reno
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Max-Black plan did influence to some degree the shape of the ultimate Eleventh District. . . . [But] the actual Eleventh is not identical to the Max-Black plan. The Eleventh, to my eye, is significantly different in shape in many ways. These differences show . . . consideration of other matters beyond race. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Miller v. Johnson“traditional districting factors (such as keeping political subdivisions intact) and the usual political process of compromise and trades for a variety of nonracial reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Miller v. Johnson“traditional . . . districting principles”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Miller v. Johnson
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.