packing
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 602 U.S. 1 - Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP · 2024Most cited · 16 citing opinions
concentrating minority voters in a single district to reduce their influence in surrounding districts.
How often courts cite the case defining “packing”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “packing” — 16 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.