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.

• house reapportionment plan held to be unconstitutional because legislature failed to justify substantial crossing of county lines
• house reapportionment plan held to be unconstitutional because legislature failed to justify substantial crossing of county lines
• “the drafters of the House plan admitted that no effort was made to hold county divisions to a minimum”
• court affirmed lower court decision rejecting redistricting plans that were drafted with sole objective of obtaining low percentages of total deviation, with no effort made to consider other nonnumerical criteria
• \the unusual single deviation in Brown may well be inapplicable elsewhere\
• “the unusual single deviation in Brown may well be inapplicable elsewhere”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pearson v. Koster
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2012-05-25· cited 184×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2012-05-25· cited 43×
• Fonfara v. Reapportionment Commission
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-05-26· cited 34×
• Fischer v. State Board of Elections
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1994-06-23· cited 20×
• In Re Reapportionment of Town of Hartland
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1993-01-27· cited 20×
• 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×
• 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

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• White v. Regester
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-18· cited 771×
• Mahan v. Howell
  Supreme Court· 1973-04-02· cited 441×
• Chapman v. Meier
  Supreme Court· 1975-01-27· cited 371×
• Connor v. Finch
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-31· cited 363×
• Brown v. Thomson
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 283×
• State Ex Rel. Lockert v. Crowell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1982-03-31· cited 26×
• In Re Reapportionment Plan for the Pennsylvania General Assembly
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-29· cited 22×
• Logan v. O'NEILL
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-08-03· cited 20×