Jamerson v. Womack’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2022
16 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 42 U.S.C. § 1971 (Civil Rights Act of 1957) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Thornburg v. Gingles · Wesberry v. Sanders · Katzenbach v. Morgan · Carter v. Carter · Attorney General v. Suffolk County Apportionment Commissioners
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is also settled that if the validity of such a [legislative] determination is fairly debatable, the legislative determination will be upheld by the courts. Barrick v. Board of Supervisors, 239 Va. 628, 630 , 391 S.E.2d 318, 319 (1990) (adoption of zoning ordinance). In this context, an issue is “fairly debatable” if, “when, measured by both quantitative and qualitative tests, the evidence offered in support of the opposing views would lead objective and reasonable persons to reach different conclusions.” Board of Supervisors v. Jackson, 221 Va. 328, 333 , 269 S.E.2d 381, 384-85 (1980) (denial of rezoning by board of supervisors). Further, we also note the “strong presumption of validity” attached to eveiy statute and the requirement that it “clearly” violate some constitutional provision before courts will invalidate it. Caldwell v. Seaboard System R.R., 238 Va. 148, 152 , 380 S.E.2d 910, 912 (1989). Thus, courts “have nothing to do with the question whether or not legislation is wise and proper”; only where the statute in issue is “plainly repugnant” to a constitutional provision will we declare it null and void. City of Charlottesville v. DeHaan, 228 Va. 578, 583-84 , 323 S.E.2d 131, 133 (1984) (quoting Ex parte Settle, 114 Va. 715, 719 , 77 S.E. 496, 497 (1913)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Members of the House of Representatives of the United States and members of the Senate and of the House of Delegates of the General Assembly shall be elected from electoral districts established by the General Assembly. Every electoral district shall be composed of contiguous and compact territory and shall be so constituted as to give, as nearly as is practicable, representation in proportion to the population of the district. The General Assembly shall reapportion the Commonwealth into electoral districts in accordance with this section in the year 1971 and every ten years thereafter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when fair-minded men[,] from an examination of the [redistricting,] can entertain no reasonable doubt that there is a grave, unnecessary, and unreasonable [error], the Constitution has been violated and it is the duty of the court to so declare.”
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.