421 F. Supp. 726 - McInerney v. Wrightson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2012
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
Relies on Williams v. Rhodes · Storer v. Brown · Bullock v. Carter · Wesberry v. Sanders · Lubin v. Panish
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . this is a federal court and not the Delaware General Assembly . . . the defendants cannot now successfully seek to impose judicially a requirement that the legislature has declined to impose. This Court will not presume to encroach upon the legislative discretion delegated by Article I Sec. 4 . . .” 421 F.Supp. at 731 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCarthy v. Tribbitt““The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCarthy v. Tribbitt
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.