399 F. Supp. 2d 756 - Henderson v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2021
1 district ·
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
Applies 13 U.S.C. § 141 · 2 U.S.C. § 2A
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Poe v. Ullman · Lawrence v. Texas
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States .... “Section 4. The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for ... Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations ... .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[s]imply undo[] the work of one political party for the benefit of another[.]”
1 later decision 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.