Davids v. Akers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions

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.

1. “[t]he principle that such procedures are for the House itself to decide is as old as the British Parliament.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parker v. Merlino · Vander Jagt v. O'Neill

2. “to tell the Speaker of the ... House of Representatives how many Democrats, and perhaps even which Democrats, he is to appoint to the standing committees, and perhaps to each such committee.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Page v. Tri-City Healthcare District · Vander Jagt v. O'Neill

3. “... An individual citizen, voting for a candidate for public office, is in a very different position from an elected member of a legislative body, such as Arizona’s House of Representatives. It is true that, like the elector, the member has one vote as a member of the House. Nothing in the record, however, suggests that his vote is different from that of each other member. He has no more right to have other members vote with him than an elector has to have other electors vote with him. Neither has a right to win. Each has a right to have his vote counted, with the same weight as every other vote. That, the member has.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parker v. Merlino