Jordan v. Winter’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284 · 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Wesberry v. Sanders · Allen v. State Board of Elections · City of Mobile v. Bolden · White v. Regester · Connor v. Finch
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“District No. 1 shall consist of the following whole counties: Alcorn Itawamba Montgomery Tishomingo Benton Lafayette Pontotoc Union Calhoun Lee Prentiss Webster Chickasaw Marshall Tate Yalobusha DeSoto Monroe Tippah together with the following parts of counties: Choctaw County All except for the Panhandle precinct; Panola County All except for the precincts of Crenshaw, Curtis, East Crowder, Longtown, Pleasant Grove, and South Curtis; Tallahatchie County All precincts located in Supervisors’ Districts 1, 2, and 3. District No. 2 shall consist of the following whole counties: Bolivar Holmes Leflore Tunica Carroll Humphreys Quitman Warren Claiborne Issaquena Sharkey Washington Coahoma Jefferson Sunflower Grenada together with the following parts of counties: Attala County The precincts of McAdams, Newport, Sallis, Shrock, and Possumneck; Hinds County The precincts of Bolton, Brownsville, Cayuga, Chapel Hill, Dry Grove, Edwards, Learned, Pinehaven, Pocahontas, Raymond 1, Raymond 2, Tinnin, Utica 1, and Utica 2; Madison County All except the precinct of Ridgeland; Panola County The precincts of Crenshaw, Curtis, East Crowder, Longtown, Pleasant Grove, and South Curtis; Tallahatchie County All precincts located in Supervisors’ Districts 4 and 5' District No. 3 shall consist of the following whole counties: Clarke Lauderdale Newton Scott Clay Leake Noxubee Smith Jasper Lowndes Oktibbeha Winston Kemper Neshoba together with the following parts of counties: Attala County All except f”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan v. Winter“(1) Minimal change from 1972 district lines; (2) least possible population deviation; (3) preservation of the electoral base of incumbent congressmen; and (4) establishment of two districts with 40% or better black population.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan v. Winter“[w]hat is required is that the state deal fairly with its black citizens by avoiding any scheme that has the purpose or effect of unnecessarily minimizing or fragmenting black voting strength.”
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.