Reed v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 1980
6 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Wesberry v. Sanders · Gray v. Sanders
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the selection of commissioners is to be on a district or county wide basis is a matter, in the beginning, of political or governmental policy and judgment. * * * The selection of a system, so long as it is not proscribed by the federal Constitution, is, of course, not the business of the court.” At 24.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * And we know of no doctrine of law other than that of inequality on which a claim of denial of equal protection or due process under such circumstances can otherwise rest. There is no right per se to select representatives from any given size district or unit.” At 24-25.”
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.