Bradas v. Rapides Parish Police Jury’s Empirical Analysis
508 F.2d 1109 · 1975
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Nevett v. Sides (1978), Kirksey v. Board of Supervisors (1977)
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 White v. Regester · Whitcomb v. Chavis · Chapman v. Meier · Zimmer v. McKeithen · Sixty-Seventh Minnesota State Senate v. Beens
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conceived or operated as purposeful devices to further racial or economic discrimination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . being used invidiously to cancel out or minimize the voting strength of racial groups ... To sustain such claims, it is not enough that the racial group allegedly discriminated against has not had legislative seats in proportion to its voting potential. The plaintiff’s burden is to produce evidence to support findings that the political processes leading to nomination and election were not equally open to participation by the group in question — that its members had less opportunity than did other residents in the district to participate in the political processes and to elect legislators of their choice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(8) The Court of Appeals decision stated: To prevent needless expense and confusion, the tenure in office of the present members of the Police Jury and School Board, elected under the 9 member plans of the May 10, 1974 judgment, shall not be disturbed in the interim.”
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.