Curcio v. Boyle’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
April 1993
most recently cited
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]s proponents of a weighted voting plan, the petitioners bear the burden of proving that their proposal will comport with the `one person, one vote' requirement imposed by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“prohibits the adoption of the proposed system of weighted voting”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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