Roman v. Sincock’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 124 district · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 593 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Reynolds v. Sims (1964), Oregon v. Mitchell (1970)
74 federal appellate · 124 district · 141 state decisions — followed in 27 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 · Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado · Hearne v. E Smylie
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 593 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“free from any taint of arbitrariness or discrimination.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Reynolds v. Sims, ante, p. 533 [84 S.Ct. 1362], decided also this date, 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.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In giving the Delaware Legislature an opportunity to adopt a constitutionally valid plan of legislative apportionment, and in deferring decision until after the November 1962 general election, because of the imminence of that election and the disruptive effect which its decision might have had, the District Court acted in a wise and temperate manner.”
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.