Supreme Court of the United States, 1964

Hearne v. Smylie

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided June 22, 1964 · Forty-Fourth, Colorado, Sims

378 U.S. 563; 84 S. Ct. 1917; 12 L. Ed. 2d 1036; 1964 U.S. LEXIS 850 (United States Reports)

Counsel

Herman J. McDevitt for appellants., Allan G. Shepard, Attorney General of Idaho, and M. Allyn Dingel, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellees.

Cases that cite this one

13 later published cases cite this decision.

Twin Falls County v. Idaho Commission on Redistricting (Idaho 2012)
Hellar v. Cenarrusa (Idaho 1984)
Harris v. Anderson (Kan. 1965)
Butcher v. Bloom (Pa. 1966)
United States v. Georgia Power Co. (United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia 1981)
Narragansett Tribe of Indians v. Southern Rhode Island Land Development Corp. (District Court, D. Rhode Island 1976)
Lance v. Board of Education of County of Roane (W. Va. 1969)
Lance v. Board of Education (W. Va. 1969)
State Ex Rel. Tomblin v. Bivens (W. Va. 1966)
Armentrout v. Schooler (Mo. 1966)
Honsey v. Donovan (D. Minn. 1964)
William v. Cenarrusa (Idaho 1984)
Klahr v. Goddard (United States District Court for the District of Arizona 1966)

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Opinion

Per Curiam.

The judgment below is reversed. Baker v. Carr, 369 U. S. 186; Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533. The case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with the views stated in our opinions in Reynolds v. Sims and in the other cases relating to state legislative apportionment decided along with Reynolds.

Mr. Justice Clark would reverse on the basis of his dissenting opinion in Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado, 377 U. S. 713, 741. Mr. Justice Stewart would remand for further proceedings consistent with the views stated in his dissenting opinion in Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado, 377 U. S. 713, 744. Mr. Justice Harlan dissents for the reasons stated in his dissenting opinion in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U. S. 533, 589.

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