Radford v. Gary’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 2 U.S.C. § 2A
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Bolling v. Sharpe · Brown v. Board of Education · United States v. Classic · Smith v. Allwright
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The question of the distribution of political strength for legislative purposes has been before the Supreme Court of the United States on numerous occasions. From a review of these decisions there can be no doubt that the federal rule, as enuniciated and applied by the Supreme Court, is that the federal courts, whether from a lack of jurisdiction or from the inappropriateness of the subject matter for judicial consideration, will not intervene in cases of this type to compel legislative reapportionment. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the issue was one of a `peculiarly political nature and therefore not meet for judicial determination.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butcher v. Rice
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.