Connor v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1994
2 district ·
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 Baker v. Carr · Connor v. Johnson · Connor v. Johnson
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.
“absent insurmountable difficulties, to devise and put into effect a single-member district plan for Hinds County.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Connor v. Finch
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.