Sixty-Seventh Minnesota State Senate v. Beens’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 24 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 169 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Gibson v. Berryhill (1973), City of Mobile v. Bolden (1980)
35 federal appellate · 24 district · 26 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. § 1253 · 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 · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Whitcomb v. Chavis · Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado · 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 169 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We need not review at length the several pronouncements of this Court relating to state legislative reapportionment. The pertinent cases, particularly those of June 15, 1964, and the guidelines they provide are well-known. It suffices to note that in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 , 84 S.Ct. 1362 , 12 L.Ed.2d 506 , the Court stated that apportionment ‘is primarily a matter for legislative consideration and determination, and . . . judicial relief becomes appropriate only when a legislature fails to reapportion according to federal constitutional requisites . . . ’ 377 U.S. at 586 , [ 84 S.Ct. at 1394 ], 12 L.Ed.2d at 541 . But we also stated, ‘With respect to the operation of the Equal Protection Clause, it makes no difference whether a State’s apportionment scheme is embodied in its constitution or in statutory provisions, and, then, ‘Clearly, courts should attempt to accommodate the relief ordered to the apportionment provisions of state constitutions insofar as is possible.’ 377 U.S. at 584 [ 84 S.Ct. at 1393 ], 12 L.Ed.2d at 540 .” Minnesota State Senate v. Benns, 406 U.S. 187 at 196 , 92 S.Ct. 1477 at 1483 , 32 L.Ed.2d 1 at 9-10 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Size is for the state to determine in the exercise of its wisdom and in the light of its awareness of the needs and desires of its people.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Edna Hines Inell Thomas James Reynolds Ahoskie Civic Association v. Mayor and Town Council of Ahoskie, and Christine Callis, in Her Official Capacity as Supervisor of Elections of Hertford County Hertford County Board of Elections, Edna Hines Inell Thomas James Reynolds Ahoskie Civic Association v. Mayor and Town Council of Ahoskie, and Christine Callis, in Her Official Capacity as Supervisor of Elections of Hertford County Hertford County Board of Elections · Hines“the federal courts are often going to be faced with hard remedial problems”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.