Swann v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2012 · most notably Swann v. Adams (1967), Maryland Citizens for a Representative General Assembly v. Governor of Maryland (1970)
6 federal appellate · 7 district · 16 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
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Swann v. Adams
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * in approving the [1965] plan on an interim basis, the District Court erred. * * * we find no warrant for perpetuating what all concede to be an unconstitutional apportionment for another three years.”
2 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.