Childrey v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
997 F.2d 830 · 1993
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2019
8 federal appellate ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Smith v. Harmsen · Bergman v. United States · Lincoln v. Board of Regents of the University System
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
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.