Cook v. Luckett’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
February 1993
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Flast v. Cohen · Reynolds v. Sims · Avery v. Midland County · Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Madison County has waited for almost one hundred years for new districts; they need not be so poorly designed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Billy N. Cook, Robert Carter, Individually and on Behalf of All Other Resident Citizens and Qualified Electors of Madison County, Mississippi, Plaintiffs v. Pat H. Luckett, Jr., Dorothy L. Dowdle, J.S. Harris, Jr., A.E. Crawford and E.D. Mansell, in Their Official Capacities as Duly Elected Supervisors of Madison County, Mississippi, Canton Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Don Lane, George Elliott, Willie Harrell, Alive Scott and Roy Davis, in Their Official Capacities as Election Commissioners of Madison County, Mississippi · Cook v. Luckett“fail[ed] on their face to take communities of interest into account.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Billy N. Cook, Robert Carter, Individually and on Behalf of All Other Resident Citizens and Qualified Electors of Madison County, Mississippi, Plaintiffs v. Pat H. Luckett, Jr., Dorothy L. Dowdle, J.S. Harris, Jr., A.E. Crawford and E.D. Mansell, in Their Official Capacities as Duly Elected Supervisors of Madison County, Mississippi, Canton Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Don Lane, George Elliott, Willie Harrell, Alive Scott and Roy Davis, in Their Official Capacities as Election Commissioners of Madison County, Mississippi · Cook v. Luckett“only a very few of the existing district lines.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Billy N. Cook, Robert Carter, Individually and on Behalf of All Other Resident Citizens and Qualified Electors of Madison County, Mississippi, Plaintiffs v. Pat H. Luckett, Jr., Dorothy L. Dowdle, J.S. Harris, Jr., A.E. Crawford and E.D. Mansell, in Their Official Capacities as Duly Elected Supervisors of Madison County, Mississippi, Canton Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Don Lane, George Elliott, Willie Harrell, Alive Scott and Roy Davis, in Their Official Capacities as Election Commissioners of Madison County, Mississippi · Cook v. Luckett
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.