Davis v. Mann’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 93 district · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 503 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2018 · most notably Reynolds v. Sims (1964), Babbitt v. United Farm Workers National Union (1979)
57 federal appellate · 93 district · 100 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 · Reynolds v. Sims · McNeese v. Board of Education for Community Unit School District 187 Cahokia · Gray v. Sanders · Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado
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 503 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Reynolds v. Sims * * * we held that the Equal Protection Clause requires that seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned substantially on a population basis.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““appellants’ argument that the underrepresentation ... [in three counties] is constitutionally justifiable since it allegedly resulted in part from the fact that those areas contain large numbers of military and military-related personnel. Discrimination against a class of individuals, merely because of the nature of their employment, without more being shown, is constitutionally impermissible.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Appellants’ contention that the court below should have abstained so as to permit a state court to decide the questions of state law involved in this litigation is without merit. Where a federal court’s jurisdiction is properly invoked, and the relevant state constitutional and statutory' provisions are plain and unambiguous, there is no necessity for the federal court to abstain pending determination of the state law questions in a state court. McNeese v. Board of Education, 373 U.S. 668 , 83 S.Ct. 1433 , 10 L.Ed.2d 622 . This is especially so where, as here, no state proceeding has been instituted or was pending when the District Courtis jurisdiction was invoked. We conclude that the court below did not err in refusing to dismiss the proceeding or stay its action pending recourse to the state courts.” (emphasis added)”
3 later decisions 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.