Avens v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2012
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1652 (Rules of Decision Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Reynolds v. Sims · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Kramer v. Union Free School District No. 15 · Sweezy v. State of New Hampshire C Wyman
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Six of the seven Washington County districts are represented by one supervisor but Harrison District, which has approximately the same population as the others, is represented by two. This dual representation appears to have occurred because the newly apportioned Harrison District embraced the residences of two of the incumbent supervisors. Consequently, a person in Harrison District has twice the representation of citizens living elsewhere in the county.”
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.