Keller v. Davidson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Nevertheless, the Colorado Supreme Court appears ultimately to hold that the restriction they find in Cob. Const. Art. V, § 44-gvanting the General Assembly one, and only one, chance to create congressional districts through legislation-does not violate the federal Constitution when it concludes that "the state constitution limits redistricting to once per census, no matter which body creates the districts. Nothing in state or federal law contradicts this limitation." This statement can reasonably be taken as a holding that Cob. Const. Art. .V, § 44 does not violate Article I, § 4 of the federal Constitution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 379 F. Supp. 2d 1117 - Lance v. Davidson

2. ““(1) whether the remedies and procedures of the first proceeding are substantially different from those in the proceeding in which collateral estoppel is asserted; (2) whether the party ... against whom collateral estoppel is sought had sufficient incentive to litigate vigorously; and (3) the extent to which the issues [being .litigated] are identical.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lance v. Dennis

3. “the Governor's claimed interest in the primacy of the legislative lawmaking process in congressional redistricting places him in privity with the General Assembly.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mo's Express, LLC v. Sopkin