Wood v. Broom’s Empirical Analysis
287 U.S. 1 · 1932
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 16 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)
13 federal appellate · 16 district · 20 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
Relies on Ex parte Bakelite Corp. · Smiley v. Holm · Broom v. Wood
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be composed of contiguous and compact territory and contain as nearly as practicable, the same number of individuals.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mr. Justice BRANDEIS, Mr. Justice STONE, Mr. Justice ROBERTS, and Mr. Justice CARDOZO are of opinion that the decree should be reversed and the bill dismissed for want of equity . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butcher v. Rice“composed of a contiguous and compact territory, and containing as nearly as practicable an equal number of inhabitants”
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.