378 U.S. 553 - Swann v. Adams

How this case has been cited

Cited by 56 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2013 · most notably Ginzburg v. United States (1966), Kaplan v. California (1973)

9 federal appellate · 4 district · 21 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.

See 85 S.Ct. 15.

Wm. Reece Smith, Jr., for appellant.

Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen. of Florida, C. Graham Carothers, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., and Edward S. Jaffry and Joseph C. Jacobs, Asst. Attys. Gen., for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

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The judgment below is reversed. Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 84 S.Ct. 1362. The case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with the views stated in our opinions in Reynolds v. Sims and in the other cases relating to state legislative apportionment decided along with Reynolds.

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Mr. Justice CLARK would reverse on the grounds stated in his opinion in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 587, 84 S.Ct. 1362, 1395.

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Mr. Justice STEWART would remand for further proceedings consistent with the views expressed in his dissenting opinion in Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado, 377 U.S. 713, 744, 84 S.Ct. 1459, 1477.

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Mr. Justice HARLAND dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 589, 84 S.Ct. 1362, 1395.