Jackman v. Bodine’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2012 · most notably Scott v. Germano (1965), American Trial Lawyers Ass'n v. New Jersey Supreme Court (1974)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 67 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 · United States v. Cruikshank · Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado · Roman v. Sincock
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The duty to comply with the equal protection clause rests upon the three branches of State Government and upon the people of the State as well. The question is what part must be played by each. We think it clear that the judiciary should not itself devise a plan except as a last resort " * *. [43 N. J. at 473]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We hold that as a basic constitutional standard, the Equal Protection Clause requires that the seats in both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned on a population basis. Simply stated, an individual's right to vote for state legislators is unconstitutionally impaired when its weight is in a substantial fashion diluted when compared with votes of citizens living in other parts of the State. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We think it clear from Reynolds v. Sims that further elections to the Legislature cannot be held upon the existing constitutional plan. It follows that there must be a reapportionment in time for a general election of all legislators in November 1965. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.