Edge v. Sumter County School District’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 1509 · 1985
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Solomon v. Liberty County (1990), Dillard v. Crenshaw County, Alabama (1987)
16 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (§ 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · Allen v. State Board of Elections · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Whitcomb v. Chavis
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Upham v. Seamon, 456 U.S. 37 , 102 S.Ct. 1518 , 71 L.Ed.2d 725 (1982), the Supreme Court clearly stated that although Conner [v. Johnson, 402 U.S. 690 , 91 S.Ct. 1760 , 29 L.Ed.2d 268 (1971) ] suggested single-member districts are preferable to multi-member districts, at-large districts that do not offend either the Constitution or the [Voting Rights Act] should not be rejected in the court-ordered remedy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“district court could not validly adopt a reapportionment plan without determining whether the plan complied with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1973”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n 1964, prior to the Voting Rights Act, Georgia law provided that the Sumter County grand jury appoint school board members.”
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.