State Ex Rel. Lockert v. Crowell

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that there are “excellent policy reasons for the presence of a provision that counties must be represented in the Senate”
• tracking the sizes of Tennessee’s House and Senate throughout Tennessee history
• “[T]he plan adopted must cross as few county lines as is necessary to comply with the federal constitutional requirements.”
• standing of voters in affected districts “not in issue”

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Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• William v. Cenarrusa
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1984-01-04· cited 96×
• LeRoux v. Secretary of State
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2002-03-25· cited 45×
• Kallenberger v. Buchanan
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1982-07-29· cited 20×
• Fischer v. State Board of Elections
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-06-23· cited 20×
• State Ex Rel. Lockert v. Crowell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-09-07· cited 18×
• Brooks v. Hobbie
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-12-22· cited 17×
• Rice v. English
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2002-05-24· cited 16×
• Rural West Tennessee African-American Affairs Council, Inc. v. McWherter
  W.D. Tennessee· 1993-10-05· cited 12×
• Kermit L. Moore, Jr. v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2014-01-10· cited 12×
• Bartlett v. Stephenson
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-17· cited 9×
• State ex rel. Lockert v. Crowell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-04-27· cited 3×
• Lincoln County v. Crowell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 2×
• Rural West Tennessee African-American Affairs Council, Inc. v. McWherter
  W.D. Tennessee· 1993-11-04· cited 2×
• RURAL W. TENN. AFRICAN-AMERICAN COUN. v. McWherter
  W.D. Tennessee· 1993-11-04
• Akilah Moore v. William Lee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2022-04-13
• Gary Wygant v. Bill Lee, Governor
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2025-12-10

Cites

22 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×
• City of Mobile v. Bolden
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-22· cited 783×
• White v. Regester
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 771×
• Whitcomb v. Chavis
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-07· cited 658×
• Gaffney v. Cummings
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 507×
• Mahan v. Howell
  Supreme Court· 1973-04-02· cited 441×
• White v. Weiser
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 320×
• Swann v. Adams
  Supreme Court· 1967-01-09· cited 280×
• Kilgarlin v. Hill
  Supreme Court· 1967-04-10· cited 163×
• Butcher v. Bloom
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-09-29· cited 77×
• Smith v. Craddick
  Texas Supreme Court· 1971-09-16· cited 60×
• Legislature v. Reinecke
  California Supreme Court· 1973-11-28· cited 50×
• White v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1964-07-17· cited 46×
• Egan v. Hammond
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-09-29· cited 34×
• Gentry Crowell, Secretary of State of Tennessee v. Richard Mader
  Supreme Court· 1980-02-19· cited 32×
• Clements v. Valles
  Texas Supreme Court· 1981-08-31· cited 20×
• Mader v. Crowell
  M.D. Tennessee· 1980-03-27· cited 19×
• Federal Trade Commission v. Lukens Steel Co.
  District of Columbia· 1977-02-17· cited 13×
• White v. Crowell
  W.D. Tennessee· 1977-07-26· cited 12×

Other cases named State Ex Rel. Lockert v. Crowell

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• State Ex Rel. Lockert v. Crowell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1983-09-07· cited 18×
• State ex rel. Lockert v. Crowell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-04-27· cited 3×