Marshall v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
582 F.2d 927 · 1978
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Jones v. City of Lubbock (1984), Rev. Roy Jones, et al.
17 federal appellate · 1 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · White v. Regester · Whitcomb v. Chavis · Mobil Alaska Pipeline Co. v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he least representative branch of the government must take care when it reforms the most representative branch.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terrazas v. Clements · 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“The plan further assume[s] that the racial groups would vote only for members of their own race. The findings made earlier in this case that East Carroll Parish has a history of racial bloc voting does not necessarily mean that the blocs would be solid if an exceptionally popular and well qualified candidate of one race ran against an exceptionally unpopular and unqualified candidate of another race.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause of the almost infinite number of patterns apportionment might follow in any given geographical area, the trial judge has a wide range of discretion in adopting a plan.”
2 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.