Farnum v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2011
6 district · 4 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
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · White v. Regester · Whitcomb v. Chavis · Gaffney v. Cummings · Mahan v. Howell
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Decennial reapportionment appears to be a rational approach to readjustment of legislative representation in order to take into account population shifts, and growth.... [Compliance with such an approach would clearly meet the minimal requirements for maintaining a reasonably current scheme of legislative representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.