Connor v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
92 federal appellate · 36 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 374 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably East Carroll Parish School Board v. Marshall (1976), Mahan v. Howell (1973)
92 federal appellate · 36 district · 27 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 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Burns v. Richardson · Fortson v. Dorsey · Morton Salt Co. v. United States · Connor v. Johnson
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 374 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when district courts are forced to fashion apportionment plans, single-member districts are preferable to large multi-member districts as a general matter.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Connor v. Coleman · Upham v. Seamon“[A] reapportionment plan formulated and ordered by a federal district court need not be approved by the United States Attorney General or the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Under our constitutional system it would be strange indeed to construe § 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ... to require that actions of a federal court be stayed and reviewed by the Attorney General or the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“absent insurmountable difficulties, to devise and put into effect a single-member district plan for Hinds County.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Connor v. Coleman · Connor v. Finch
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.