Reynolds v. Sims decision

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United States Supreme Court decision landmark voting rights case

The Reynolds v. Sims decision is a landmark 1964 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that established the “one person, one vote” principle by requiring state legislative districts to be roughly equal in population under the Equal Protection Clause.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Reynolds v. Sims	6
Reynolds v. Sims decision canonical	1
United States Supreme Court cases on legislative apportionment	1
Wesberry v. Sanders	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Supreme Court decision ⓘ landmark voting rights case ⓘ
appliesTo	bicameral state legislatures ⓘ state house of representatives districts ⓘ state senate districts ⓘ unicameral state legislatures ⓘ
category	1964 in United States case law ⓘ United States Supreme Court cases ⓘ surface form: United States Supreme Court cases of the Warren Court Reynolds v. Sims decision self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: United States Supreme Court cases on legislative apportionment
chiefJusticeAtTime	Earl Warren ⓘ
citation	377 U.S. 533 ⓘ
constitutionalBasis	Equal Protection Clause ⓘ
constitutionalProvisionInterpreted	Equal Protection Clause ⓘ surface form: Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
court	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
decisionDate	1964-06-15 ⓘ
defendants	Alabama Legislature ⓘ surface form: Alabama state election officials
dissentingJustice	John M. Harlan II ⓘ surface form: John Marshall Harlan II
effect	required redistricting of many state legislatures ⓘ shifted political power from rural areas to urban and suburban areas ⓘ strengthened the principle of equal representation for equal numbers of people ⓘ
fullName	Reynolds v. Sims decision self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Reynolds v. Sims
holding	both houses of a bicameral state legislature must be apportioned substantially on a population basis ⓘ geographic or political subdivision boundaries alone cannot justify large population disparities between districts ⓘ malapportioned state legislative districts can violate the Equal Protection Clause ⓘ state legislative districts must be apportioned on a population basis ⓘ state legislative districts must be substantially equal in population ⓘ
impact	established nationwide requirement for population-based state legislative apportionment ⓘ
issue	malapportionment of Alabama state legislative districts ⓘ
jurisdiction	state legislative apportionment ⓘ
legalArea	constitutional law ⓘ election law ⓘ voting rights ⓘ
legalStandard	substantially equal population among legislative districts ⓘ
majorityOpinionBy	Earl Warren ⓘ
plaintiffs	voters from Jefferson County, Alabama ⓘ
precededByCase	Baker v. Carr ⓘ
principleEstablished	one person, one vote ⓘ
relatedCase	Avery v. Midland County ⓘ Gray v. Sanders ⓘ Lucas v. Forty-Fourth General Assembly of Colorado ⓘ Wesberry v. Sanders ⓘ
relatedDoctrine	justiciability of apportionment cases ⓘ
sloganAssociated	one person, one vote ⓘ
stateInvolved	Alabama ⓘ
term	1963 Term of the U.S. Supreme Court ⓘ
voteSplit	8–1 ⓘ

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Earl Warren → notableWork → Reynolds v. Sims decision ⓘ

"One man, one vote" → hasLegalInfluenceOn → Reynolds v. Sims decision ⓘ

subject surface form: One man, one vote