Petuskey v. Clyde’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1991
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Gray v. Sanders · Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado · Roman v. Sincock
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We note here the somewhat widespread public statements of some persons who are, or may be, charged with the responsibility of lawmaking that reapportionment is a subject upon which they are ‘willing to drag their feet’ or to ‘await potential changes in the federal law or Constitution.’ It is sufficient to say that the denial of the equal protection of law to the citizens of Utah is not a situation that can tolerate a ‘dragging of feet,’ for to suspend a constitutional right by delay is to deny that right. Similarly, it is the duty of the legislature as well as the duty of this court to approach the problem of apportionment under existing law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petuskey v. Rampton“This action of the Legislature is historic. No other Legislature since statehood has constructed legislative districts in both houses so nearly equal in population. This is the end of a long history of frustrated attempts to reapportion, and the beginning of a new era.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petuskey v. Rampton“applies to the Congress of the United States to call a convention for the purpose of proposing * * * an amendment to the Constitution of the United States”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petuskey v. Rampton
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.