Fairley v. Patterson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[T]he Supreme Court has conclusively established * * * that sufficient damage through underrepresentation to obtain standing will be inflicted if population equality among voting units is not present.”
• “[T]he Supreme Court has conclusively established * * * that sufficient damage through underrepresentation to obtain standing will be inflicted if population equality among voting units is not present.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society
  Supreme Court· 1975-05-12· cited 4,586×
• West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey
  Supreme Court· 1991-03-19· cited 884×
• Ellis v. Cassidy
  Ninth Circuit· 1980-06-20· cited 826×
• Serrano v. Unruh
  California Supreme Court· 1982-10-28· cited 293×
• Peter Evans v. City of Zebulon, Georgia
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-05-09· cited 126×
• Rosa Torres v. Alice Sachs, Raymond S. Velez v. Patrick Cunningham, Juana Lopez v. David Dinkins
  Second Circuit· 1976-06-25· cited 105×
• Young v. Redman
  California Court of Appeal· 1976-02-26· cited 54×
• Lang v. French
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-09-04· cited 41×
• Population Services International v. Carey
  S.D. New York· 1979-01-05· cited 26×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-03-23· cited 16×
• D.G. Ex Rel. LaNisha T. v. New Caney Independent School District
  Fifth Circuit· 2015-11-10· cited 11×
• Kirk v. Arnold
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2020-06-16· cited 7×
• Broadmoor Homes v. Cement Masons, Local 594
  N.D. California· 1981-01-22· cited 4×
• Poett v. United States Department of Justice
  District of Columbia· 2012-03-05· cited 1×
• Kirk v. Arnold
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2020-12-07· cited 1×
• Save Ourselves, Inc. v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-05-20

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Baker v. Carr
  Supreme Court· 1962-03-26· cited 6,173×
• Reynolds v. Sims
  Supreme Court· 1964-10-12· cited 3,703×
• Flast v. Cohen
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 3,484×
• Sierra Club v. Morton
  Supreme Court· 1972-04-19· cited 3,248×
• Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp
  Supreme Court· 1970-03-03· cited 3,186×
• United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP)
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 1,746×
• Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.
  Supreme Court· 1970-01-26· cited 1,683×
• Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1968-03-18· cited 1,644×
• Sprague v. Ticonic National Bank
  Supreme Court· 1939-04-24· cited 1,255×
• Barlow v. Collins
  Supreme Court· 1970-03-09· cited 939×
• Allen v. State Board of Elections
  Supreme Court· 1968-10-14· cited 887×
• Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson
  Supreme Court· 1962-02-26· cited 730×
• Alexander Kahan, on Behalf of Himself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Lewis Rosenstiel
  Third Circuit· 1970-06-08· cited 418×
• Tileston v. Ullman
  Supreme Court· 1943-02-01· cited 283×
• Brumbaugh v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 232×
• Socialist Labor Party v. Gilligan
  Supreme Court· 1972-05-30· cited 178×
• Fairley v. Patterson
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-05-01· cited 145×
• Johnnie Ray Lee v. Southern Home Sites Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-06-11· cited 137×
• Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 93,524 Carl Mintz and Shirley Mintz v. Mathers Fund, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 1972-06-15· cited 133×
• Sims v. Amos
  M.D. Alabama· 1972-03-17· cited 125×