Wells v. Rockefeller’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2012
4 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 Wesberry v. Sanders · Swann v. Adams · Lucas v. Rhodes · 273 F. Supp. 984 - Wells v. Rockefeller
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Legislature can not be expected to satisfy ... the district preferences of all of our citizens.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even if perfection cannot be achieved between now and 1973 [the date upon which accurate redistricting could be achieved based upon the 1970 census figures], improvement is worth the effort.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he gross population disparities, which were the source of plaintiffs' original complaint and which brought about a declaration of unconstitutionality, have been remedied * * *.”
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.