Sincock v. Duffy’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Reynolds v. Sims (1964), Roman v. Sincock (1964)
8 district · 7 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 · Gray v. Sanders · Carter v. Carter Coal Co. · American Federation of Labor v. Watson · Alma Motor Co. v. Timken-Detroit Axle Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to the 2 additional senators allotted to Kent and Sussex Counties superimposed on existing senatorial districts, viz., Districts 6 and 7 in Kent and Sussex Counties, so that voters in Kent and Sussex Counties will elect two senators while the voters of New Castle County will continue to vote for but one senator, this seems to involve a hidden gerrymander that cannot be countenanced and if the reapportionment created by the 1963 Amendment met the requirements of the Equal Protection Clause in all other respects, though it does not, this feature alone, in the absence of any substantial possibility of severability, would require us to adjudge the whole Amendment unconstitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Hundred' is used in Delaware in the same sense, we believe, as it was originally employed in English law to signify `A division of a county, which some make to have originally consisted of 100 hides of land, others of 10 tithings or 100 free families.' Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Rawle's 3rd Rev. Bouvier also states, `In Delaware the subdivisions of a county are called hundreds. They correspond to towns in New England, townships in Pennsylvania, parishes in Louisiana, and the like.' See also Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Such affirmative action must be rendered possible and, as we have already indicated, an apportionment should not be permitted that would allow a blockage of major legislation desired by the great majority of electors of Delaware to come to pass in the Senate. Effecting the will of the majority of the people of a State must be deemed to be the foundation of any apportionment plan. * * ” [Emphasis supplied]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lisco v. Love
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.