Nevett v. Sides’s Empirical Analysis
571 F.2d 209 · 1978
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Thornburg v. Gingles (1986), City of Mobile v. Bolden (1980)
63 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Washington v. Davis · Reynolds v. Sims · Yick Wo v. Hopkins
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intensely local appraisal of the design and impact”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]loc voting may [also] be indicated by a showing under Zimmer of ... past discrimination in general ..., large districts, majority vote requirements, anti-single shot voting provisions and the lack of provision for at-large candidates running from particular geographic subdistricts”, or by”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he ultimate issue in a case alleging unconstitutional dilution of the votes of a racial group is whether the districting plan under attack exists because it was intended to diminish or dilute the political efficacy of that group.”
3 later decisions 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.