Colegrove v. Green
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Overruled
- Overruled by Wesberry v. Sanders (1964)suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), Table of Supreme Court Decisions Overruled by Subsequent Decisions, p. 2445: Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1 (1964) — Colegrove v. Green, 328 U.S. 549 (1946) (in part).
Syllabus
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Three persons who were qualified to vote in congressional districts of Illinois which have much larger populations than other congressional districts of that State, brought suit in a Federal District Court in Illinois, under the Declaratory Judgment Act, to restrain officers of the State from arranging for an election, in which members of Congress were to be chosen, pursuant to provisions of an - Illinois law of 1901 governing congressional districts. The complaint alleged that, by reason of later changes in population, the congressional districts, created by the Illinois law lacked compactness of territory and approxim4te equality of population; and prayed a decree, with incidental relief, declaring the provisions of the state law invalid as in violation of various provisions of the Federal Constitution and in conflict with the Reapportionment Act of 1911, as amended. The District Court dismissed the complaint. Held, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed. Pp. 550- 551,556.
Printed on p. 549 of the United States Reports, read from the text layer of the Library of Congress scan. View the page image
64 F. Supp. 632, affirmed.
Printed on p. 549 of the United States Reports, read from the text layer of the Library of Congress scan. View the page image
Provisions
The Constitution Annotated's essays on these provisions cite this case.
- Amendment XIV, Section 1suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays Amdt14.S1.8.6.2, Amdt14.S1.8.6.3, Amdt14.S1.8.6.4, pp. 2254, 2256.
- Article III, Section 2, Clause 1suggested link
Source: Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (2022 ed.), essays ArtIII.S2.C1.9.4, pp. 1073, 1074.
Why it is here
The library's first set of cases is chosen by fixed rules from the Constitution Annotated (2022), which cites this case as “Colegrove v. Green, 328 U.S. 549 (1946)”:
- overruled (table of overruled decisions) and cited on 6 pages