Buchanan v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Republican Party of North Carolina v. Martin (1992), Wells v. Edwards (1973)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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. § 2281
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp. v. Epstein
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Judges do not represent people, they serve people.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““We are surprised that the plaintiffs would have us reapportion only the judges in the trial courts of the state. Should we not also reapportion the number of sheriffs and their deputies so that litigants in heavily populated counties will have an opportunity to secure quicker service of process? Should we not also reapportion the number of clerks of court and their deputies so that litigants in heavily populated counties will have more expeditious processing of the paper work involved in litigation ? Since the prejudicial delay is also caused by a paucity of trial lawyers, shall we, considering lawyers as officers of the court (to satisfy the ‘state action’ requirement for invoking the Fourteenth Amendment), reapportion their number among the eighty-eight counties of Ohio? And if this Court can affect the destinies of men by amending an entire judicial structure, what of mere brick and mortar? Should we not also reapportion the number of courthouses and courtrooms in the various counties ? These questions supply their own answers.” (249 F.Supp. p. 862).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[c]onvenience is an essential factor in arranging an effective judicial system, since it is often necessary for a judge to hear emergency measures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.