Smith v. Holm’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 district · 12 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) That the legislature had no power or authority to reapportion the legislative districts at the 1913 session, that being the second session of the legislature subsequent to the last census. (2) That the apportionment by the 1913 enactment was not equal throughout the state in proportion to the population thereof.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Duxbury v. Donovan

2. “"* * * The matter of redistricting the state into congressional or legislative districts is so essentially administrative or legislative, restrained only by the Constitution, that the courts interfere therein only when there appears a clear and palpable violation of the fundamental law."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Duxbury v. Donovan

3. “"* * * The remedy lies in the political conscience of the legislature, where lies the burden of the constitutional mandate. It is not within the province of this court to prompt the action of that conscience. It is usually sensitive enough to promptings from the electorate."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brewer v. Gray