Peterson v. Borst’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2023
5 state decisions
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 Connor v. Finch · Colegrove v. Green · Lopes v. City of Peabody · Miles v. Burgess · Dortch v. Lugar
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court's adoption of a plan that represents one 47 political party's idea of how district boundaries should be drawn does not conform to the principle of judicial independence and neutrality.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“judges should not select a plan that seeks partisan advantage——that seeks to change the ground rules so that one party can do better than it would do under a plan drawn up by persons having no political agenda——even if they would not be entitled to invalidate an enacted plan that did so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whatever role politics may legitimately play in the decisions and maneuverings of the legislative and executive branches, if those branches cannot reach a political resolution and the dispute spills over into an Indiana court, the resolution must be judicial, not political.”
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.