Evans v. Romer’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Romer Governor of Colorado v. Evans (1996), Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning (2006)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 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 City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Dandridge v. Williams · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Shapiro v. Thompson
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.
“participate equally in the political process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the fundamental right to participate equally in the political process [by] `fencing out' an independently identifiable class of persons must be subject to strict judicial scrutiny”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he Supreme Court of the United States has never held . . . that the right to participate equally in the political process is a fundamental right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.