Kansas Congressional Districts Reapportionment Cases O'sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Hensley v. Eckerhart · Hutto v. Finney · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prevailing party” for purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1988 is whether the plaintiff has "succeeded on any significant issue in litigation which achieves some of the benefit the parties sought in bringing suit.”
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.