Scott v. Germano’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 37 district · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Williams v. Rhodes (1968), Growe v. Emison (1993)
30 federal appellate · 37 district · 72 state decisions — followed in 20 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 · Maryland Committee for Fair Representation v. Tawes · Butcher v. Bloom
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“power of the judiciary of a State to require valid reapportionment or to formulate a valid redistricting plan.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The power of the judiciary of a State to require valid reapportionment or to formulate a valid redistricting plan has not only been recognized by this Court but appropriate action by the States in such cases has been specifically encouraged. 19 ". . .The case is remanded with directions that the District Court enter an order fixing a reasonable time within which the appropriate agencies of the State of Illinois, including its Supreme Court, may validly redistrict the Illinois State Senate; provided that the same be accomplished within ample time to permit such plan to be utilized in the 1966 election. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Growe v. Emison
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.