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Partisan fairness

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 588 U.S. 684 - Rucho v. Common Cause · 2019Most cited · 82 citing opinions

that parties shall be able to translate their popular support into legislative representation with approximately equal efficiency."); Iowa Code § 42.4 (5) (2016) ("No district shall be drawn for the purpose of favoring a political party, incumbent legislator or member of Congress, or other person or group."); Del.

How often courts cite the case defining “Partisan fairness”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Partisan fairness” — 80 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.