Daly v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
483 F.2d 700 · 1973
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2000 · most notably Means v. Wilson (1975), Dry Creek Lodge, Inc. v. United States (1975)
21 federal appellate · 11 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
Applies 25 U.S.C. § 1302 (§ 202 of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968) · 25 U.S.C. § 461 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · Mahan v. Howell · Abate v. Mundt · Groundhog v. Keeler
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Recognizing that there are practical difficulties associated with meeting the constitutional standards by either dividing the Reservation into equally-populated districts or electing the councilmen-at-large, we note that another permissible alternative would be a weighted voting plan under which each councilman would be accorded voting strength which would reflect the share of the population he represents. 483 F.2d 700 at 707 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““This is one of those ‘respects [in which] the equal protection requirement of the Fourteenth Amendment should not be embraced in the Indian Bill of Rights’.” 483 F.2d 705 citing Groundhog v. Keeler, 442 F.2d 674, 682 (10th Cir.1971).”
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.