1 N.M. Ct. App. 407 - Maestas v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 2023
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Thornburg v. Gingles · Wesberry v. Sanders · Shaw v. Reno · Burns v. Richardson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court's adoption of a plan that represents one 47 political party's idea of how district boundaries should be drawn does not conform to the principle of judicial independence and neutrality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“this politically mindless approach may produce, whether intended or not, the most grossly gerrymandered results.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficiently large and geographically compact to constitute a majority in a single-member district”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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