Bennett v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1982
2 federal appellate · 1 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 Hyden v. Baker
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The objection that the plan violates a state constitutional provision in providing for members elected at large is without merit, since the ultimate measure of the plan’s validity is the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and not state law.” 294 F.Supp. at 810.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sudekum v. Hayes
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.