Thorsted v. Gregoire’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Warth v. Seldin · Ex Parte: Edward T Young
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The people will best be served by citizen legislators who are subject to a reasonable degree of rotation in office; (2) Entrenched incumbents have become indifferent to the conditions and concerns of the people; (3) Entrenched incumbents have an inordinate advantage in elections because of their control of campaign finance laws and gerrymandering of electoral districts; (4) Entrenched incumbency has discouraged qualified citizens from seeking public office; (5) Entrenched incumbents have become preoccupied with their own reelection and devote more effort to campaigning than to making legislative decisions for the benefit of the people; (6) Entrenched incumbents have become closely aligned with special interest groups who provide contributions and support for their reelection campaigns, give entrenched incumbents special favors, and lobby office holders for special interest legislation to the detriment of the people of this state, and may create corruption or the appearance of corruption of the legislative system; (7) The people of Washington have a compelling interest in preventing the self-perpetuating monopoly of elective office by a dynastic ruling class.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Supreme Court has mandated that Section 1983 be “ ‘broadly construed against all forms of official violation of federally protected rights.’” Dennis v. Higgins, 498 U.S. 439, 444 , 111 S.Ct. 865, 869 , 112 L.Ed.2d 969 (1991), quoting Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658, 700-701 , 98 S.Ct. 2018, 2040-41 , 56 L.Ed.2d 611 (1978). Threatened harm that has not yet occurred, but that will occur unless judicial relief is afforded is enough to support a civil rights claim. See, e.g., Wright v. Roanoke Redevelopment & Housing Authority, 479 U.S. 418, 431-32 , 107 S.Ct. 766, 774-74 , 93 L.Ed.2d 781 (1987).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The questions raised here are purely legal: whether a state may add qualifications for election to Congress beyond those listed in Article I, Sections 2 and 3; if not, whether Initiative 573 imposes further qualifications; and whether plaintiffs' rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments are violated. The record is complete. The constitutional issues will not disappear, and to postpone deciding them would accomplish nothing. [ Id. at 1074.] [9]”
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.