Armentrout v. Schooler’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012
1 district · 10 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 Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Wesberry v. Sanders · Gray v. Sanders · Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the members of the City Council * * * are elected by the people in a representative capacity, and perform primarily legislative functions importantly affecting the people, the wards from which they are elected must be substantially equal in population, under the equal protection of the laws clauses of the constitutions of the United States and of the State of Missouri.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all persons are created equal and are entitled to equal rights and opportunity under the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.