Connor v. Winter’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Donnell v. United States (1982), Borunda v. Richmond (1988)
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Hutto v. Finney · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Tenney v. Brandhove · Maher v. Gagne
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When bringing a constitutional attack on a state statute, plaintiffs routinely sue the executive officer charged with re- sponsibility for enforcing the legislative policy, even though the executive neither enacted the disputed statute nor possesses the power unilaterally to repeal it. The Election Commission was the only agency with statewide power to prevent the ballot placement of candidates for election to a malapportioned legislature. While they had no power to create reapportionment, they could control the continued election of members to a legislative body found to be unconstitutionally constituted.... That the Board was powerless to effect a legislative reapportionment does not affect its liability for attorney’s fees. “Since these executives were sued in their official capacity, this award of attorney’s fees will be paid from the funds of the State government. Hutto v. Finney, 437 U.S. 678, 693-94 , 98 S.Ct. 2565, 2575 , 57 L.Ed.2d 522, 535-536 (1978); McNamara v. Moody, 606 F.2d 621, 626 (5th Cir. 1979).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(e) In any action or proceeding to enforce the voting guarantees of the fourteenth or fifteenth amendment, the court, in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party, other than the United States, a reasonable attorney's fee as part of the costs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fee awards against enforcement officials [were] run-of-the-mill occurrences, even though, on occasion, had a state legislature acted or reacted in a different or more timely manner, there would have been no need for a lawsuit or for an injunction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.