Klahr v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015
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
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Wesberry v. Sanders · Burns v. Richardson · Kirkpatrick v. Preisler · Kirkpatrick v. W Preisler F V Heinkel
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court, having been advised that detailed population figures for the State of Arizona will be available from the official 1970 census by the summer of 1971, assumes that the Arizona Legislature will by November 1, 1971, enact a valid plan of reapportionment for both houses of the Arizona Legislature and a valid plan of redistricting the congressional districts of Arizona. Upon failure of the Legislature so to do, any party to this action may apply to the court for appropriate relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. (1971)“, which districted Arizona for the election of representatives in the United States Congress, and legislation entitled and hereinafter referred to as”
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.