Patterson v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Williams v. Rhodes · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections Butts · Wesberry v. Sanders
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff urges that his district would effectively be malapportioned were the governor permitted to appoint a senator to fill the vacancy.... (T)he court finds this argument to be without merit....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garcia v. Barcelo
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.