Wade v. Nolan’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2018
12 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 · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · United States v. Classic · Gibbons v. Ogden
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unanticipated changes in the law of the land have invalidated the Senate apportionment and now require that the Senate be expeditiously reapportioned on a population basis... . The Governor and the Reapportionment Board have reapportioned the Senate in the same manner that the constitution requires them to reapportion the House. An enlightened construction of Article VI which permits realization of its fundamental purpose, that reapportionment not be dependent in any manner on legislative initiative and that effective means of enforcement be readily available to any voter, is that its remaining constitutional provisions provide the implied power in the Governor and the Reapportionment Board to reapportion the Senate on an interim basis and we so hold.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The facts before us were not anticipated by the Convention. It is appropriate, therefore, that we attempt to determine from Article VI as a whole and appropriate Convention Minutes, what was the pervading purpose and intent of the Convention. We must then determine whether a fair interpretation of the various provisions of Article VI will support a construction which permits accomplishment of this purpose, bearing in mind that often "* * * what is implied is as much a part of the instrument as what is expressed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the best thought seemed to indicate that the people would be best helped if [reapportionment] were an executive function. . . . But it is the inaction of the legislature, as testified to by the universal history of the 48 states, that we're trying to overcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bess v. Ulmer
How this case has been treated — in progress
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