Chavis v. Whitcomb’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1991
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Gomillion v. Lightfoot · HEARNE Et Al. v. SMYLIE, GOVERNOR OF IDAHO, Et Al. · 305 F. Supp. 1364 - Chavis v. Whitcomb · 33 Ill. 2d 11 - People Ex Rel. Engle v. Kerner · Hughes v. WMCA, Inc.
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.
“However, the plan adopted herein is provisional in nature and probably will be applicable for only the 1970 election and the subsequent 2-year period. This is true since the 1970 census will have been completed in the interim, and the legislature can very well redistrict itself prior to the 1972 election . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. (1971)
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.