Jackman v. Bodine’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Robinson v. Cahill (1973), Taxpayers Ass'n v. Weymouth Township (1976)
2 district · 23 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 Baker v. Carr · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Reynolds v. Sims · Douglas v. People of State of California
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The Assembly districts shall be composed of contiguous territory, as nearly compact and equal in the number of their inhabitants as possible, and in no event shall each such district contain less than eighty per cent nor more than one hundred twenty per cent of one-fortieth of the total number of inhabitants of the State as reported in the last preceding decennial census of the United States. Unless necessary to meet the foregoing requirements, no county or municipality shall be divided among Assembly districts unless it shall contain more than one-fortieth of the total number of inhabitants of the state, and no county or municipality shall be divided among a number of Assembly districts larger than one plus the whole number obtained by dividing the number of inhabitants in the county or municipality by one-fortieth of the total number of inhabitants of the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no range of deviation “within which a State may maneuver, with or without reason”; that “the command is to achieve equality, and a limited deviation is permissible only if there exists an acceptable reason for the deviation”; and “the deviation may not exceed what the purpose inevitably requires.” And when a deviation does appear, the burden is the State’s to justify it. [Citation omitted.] In short, there must be selected the best plan the constitutional thesis will permit, and the best plan is the one with the least population deviation. [Id. at 382-83, 262 A.2d 389 (quoting Jones v. Falcey, 48 N.J. 25, 37 , 222 A.2d 101 (1966)).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no deviation will be defensible on that account.”
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.