State ex rel. Bowman v. Dammann’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2022
6 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 State ex rel. Attorney General v. Cunningam · People Ex Rel. Carter v. . Rice · State ex rel. Lamb v. Cunningham
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At their first session after each enumeration made by the authority of the United States, the legislature shall apportion and district anew the members of the senate and assembly, according to the number of inhabitants, excluding Indians not taxed, soldiers, and officers of the United States army and navy."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it was recognized in [Cunningham and Lamb] that the Constitution contains other provisions which militate against absolute equality . . . . For example, the requirement that the districts be bounded by county, . . . town, or ward lines[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The senators shall be elected by single districts of convenient contiguous territory, at the same time and in the same manner as members of the assembly are required to be chosen.”
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.