Veasey v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.3d 792 · 2018
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2023
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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Washington v. Davis · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because SB 5 constitutes an effective remedy for the only deficiencies testified to in SB 14, and it essentially mirrors an agreed interim order for the same purpose, the State has acted promptly following this Court's mandate, and there is no equitable basis for subjecting Texas to ongoing federal election scrutiny under Section 3(c).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perez v. Abbott“under the circumstances of th[e] case, the court had no legal or factual basis to invalidate SB 5, and its contemplation of Section 3(c) relief accordingly fail[ed] as well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perez v. Abbott“SB 14 was racially discriminatory against only the subset of indigent minority voters and did not affect the vast majority of Texas voters of all races,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perez v. Abbott
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.