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apportionment base

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 384 U.S. 73 - Burns v. Richardson · 1966Most cited · 906 citing opinions

the Equal Protection Clause does not require the States to use total population figures derived from the federal census as the standard by which this substantial population equivalency is to be measured

How often courts cite the case defining “apportionment base”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “apportionment base” — 899 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.