Sims v. Amos’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Skehan v. Board of Trustees (1974), Sixty-Seventh Minnesota State Senate v. Beens (1972)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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. § 2281
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Whitcomb v. Chavis · Swift & Co. v. Wickham · Swann v. Adams · Kirkpatrick v. Preisler
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]oundary lines are sacrificed only where absolutely necessary to satisfy the constitutional requirement of one man one vote.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It may be feasible to use political subdivision lines to a greater extent in establishing state legislative districts than in congressional districting while still affording adequate representation to all parts of the State. . . . Somewhat more flexibility may therefore be constitutionally permissible with respect to state legislative apportionment than in congressional districting. . . . "A State may legitimately desire to maintain the integrity of various political subdivisions, insofar as possible, and provide for compact districts of contiguous territory in designing a legislative apportionment scheme."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rice v. English“...the apportionment of the Alabama Legislature as herein ordered remain in effect without change, except by order of this Court, until the Legislature of the State of Alabama reapportions itself... after the next decennial census to be conducted in 1970....”
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.