Pope v. Blue’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Baker v. Carr · Reynolds v. Sims · New York v. Ferber · Wesberry v. Sanders · Madden v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not allege, nor c[ould] they, that the state's redistricting plan ... caused them to be 'shut out of the political process'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interfer[ence] with [the allegedly disfavored party's] registration, organizing, voting, fund-raising, or campaigning”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It would be idle, we think, to contend that any political consideration taken into account in fashioning a reapportionment plan is sufficient to invalidate it. Our cases indicate quite the contrary. The very essence of districting is to produce a different — a more 'politically fair’ — result than would be reached with elections at large, in which the winning party would take 100% of the legislative seats. Politics and political considerations are inseparable from districting and apportionment. The political profile of a State, its party registration, and voting records are available precinct by precinct, ward by ward. These subdivisions may not be identical with census tracts, but, when overlaid on a census map, it requires no special genius to recognize the political consequences of drawing a district line along one street rather than another. It is not only obvious, but absolutely unavoidable, that the location and shape of districts may well determine the political complexion of the area. District lines are rarely neutral phenomena. They can well deter mine what district will be predominantly Democratic or predominantly Republican, or make a close race likely. Redistricting may pit incumbents against one another or make very difficult the election of the most experienced legislator. The reality is that districting inevitably has and is intended to have substantial political consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Lear v. Miller
How this case has been treated — in progress
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