206 F. Supp. 341 - Baker v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1996 · most notably Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado (1964), Ellis v. Mayor of Baltimore (1965)
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
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 Baker v. Carr · Kidd v. McCanless · 205 F. Supp. 248 - Toombs v. Fortson · 163 F. Supp. 184 - Magraw v. Donovan · Sims v. Frink
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We find no basis for holding that the Fourteenth Amendment precludes a state from enforcing a policy which would give a measure of protection and recognition to its less populous governmental units. These subdivisions constitute an integral and historic part of the state's governmental structure. They have real and substantial interests in the state's laws, and the state could reasonably conclude that its best interests would be subserved by their effective participation in state government and in the formulation of its laws and policies. The state has the right, if it sees fit, to assure that its smaller and less populous areas and communities are not completely overridden by sheer weight of numbers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“be under a clear and unmistakable duty to take such steps as will effectively accomplish the enforcement and vindication of the constitutional rights of the [relators].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.