Cline v. Robb’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2001
2 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Warth v. Seldin · Reynolds v. Sims · Hughes v. Rowe · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP)
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A federal court must defer to the legislature’s judgment about the significance of these factors in the reapportionment process if the state has enacted an otherwise valid reapportionment plan. See Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 577-81 , 84 S.Ct. 1362, 1389-91 , 12 L.Ed.2d 506 (1964); Ferrell v. Oklahoma, 339 F.Supp. 73, 82 (W.D.Okla.), aff’d, 406 U.S. 939 , 92 S.Ct. 2045 , 32 L.Ed.2d 328 (1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“those essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation not simply convenient but indispensable.”
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.