O'Shields v. McNair’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2002
1 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado · Fortson v. Dorsey · Roman v. Sincock
Most-quoted passages
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“[ajfter we held on December 3, 1965 that § 6 of Article III, in its application, was invalid under federal constitutional standards because of the great discrepancies in the populations of the counties, the question arises as to what is left of the provisions of § 6 of Article III. Because the federal constitution requires a reapportionment of South Carolina’s Senate, is the General Assembly now free to disregard the heretofore unquestionable, if implicit, provision of the state constitution fixing the size of the Assembly? May the General Assembly now, on its own authority, enlarge the Senate from 46 to 50? To 59? To 75?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“grave doubts as to [its] validity under both state and federal constitutions”
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.