Martin v. Venables’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1991
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · White v. Regester · Burns v. Richardson · Gaffney v. Cummings · Mahan v. Howell
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that would be required was “substantial equality of population among the various districts, so. that the vote of any citizen is approximately equal in weight to that of any other citizen in the state.” (Citing Eeynolds.) ... It makes little sense to conclude from relatively minor “census population” variations among legislative districts that any person’s vote is being substantially diluted . . . [t]otal population, even if absolutely accurate as to each district when counted, is nevertheless not a talismanic measure of the weight of a person’s vote.”
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.