Hyden v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 1392 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · Cooper v. Aaron · Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article 6, Section 15: “Districts in counties — Justices and constables — Number— Term — Removal from district. — The different Counties of this State shall be laid off, as the General Assembly may direct, into districts of convenient size, so that the whole number in each County shall not be more than twenty-five, or four for every one hundred square miles. There shall be two Justices of the Peace and one Constable elected in each district by the qualified voters therein, except districts including County towns, which shall elect three Justices and two Constables. The jurisdiction of said officers shall be co-extensive with the County. Justices of the Peace shall be elected for the term of six, and Constables for the term of two years. Upon the removal of either of said officers from the district in which he was elected, his office shall become vacant from the time of such removal. Justices of the Peace shall be commissioned by the Governor. The Legislature shall have power to provide for the apportionment of an additional number of Justices of the Peace in incorporated towns.” T.C.A. Section 19-102: “Rural districts.— For each district of every county, except those districts including county or incorporated towns, two (2) justices of the peace shall be elected by the qualified voters therein.” T.C.A. Section 19-103: “Districts including county towns. — For every other district in the state which includes a county town, three (3) justices of the peace may be elected by the q”
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.