45 Misc. 2d 778 - Goldstein v. Rockefeller’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado · 26 Wis. 2d 43 - State Ex Rel. Sonneborn v. Sylvester · 234 F. Supp. 945 - Ellis v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
Most-quoted passages
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““After careful study of the available case law upon the subject; upon due consideration of the relative benefits and evils which can result both from a failure to apply that proposition of law [the one-person-one-vote principle] and also from its application ; after attempting to weigh the relative good and relative evil, both from the standpoint of the present condition of apportionment in the several cities and counties within the State and from the probable future condition, should the present growth rate and fluctuating population patterns continue at the present or a faster pace (and we are assured by experts in the field of future planning that the change will continue at a constantly increasing rate into and through the foreseeable future) ; the position necessarily now taken by the State respondents is that the equal protection clause does and must apply to local legislative bodies within this State and that the trials, inconvenience and evil of upheaval due to the application of the proposition are less to be feared, if met with intelligence, cooperation and good will, than the evil of a constantly increasing and more acute imbalance of representation of citizens in their local legislative bodies due to the failure to apply the proposition.” 257 N.Y.S.2d at 1000-1001 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That the ‘one person, one vote’ principle is applicable to the apportionment of elected members of legislative bodies of governmental units below the level of state legislatures can no longer be doubted.” (citations omitted) 258 N.Y.S.2d at 155 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... I would prefer to see too many parties to this action for a declaratory judgment than not enough.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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