SUTHERLAND ET AL.

v.

ILLINOIS

Citator

Cited By (27 total)

• Thornburg v. Gingles, 478 U.S. 30 (U.S. 1986)
  …oximates the consistent, decade-long pattern in District 23. See, e. g., Turner v. McKeithen, 490 F. 2d 191 (CA5 1973) (no black candidates elected); Wallace v. House, 515 F. 2d 619 (CA5 1975) (one black candidate elected), vacated on other grounds, 425 U. S. 947 (1976). I do not propose that consistent and virtually proportional minority electoral success should always, as a matter of law, bar finding a § 2 violation. But, as a general rule, such success is entitled to great weight in evaluating whether a…
• Superintendent, Mass. Corr. Inst. at Walpole v. Hill, 472 U.S. 445 (U.S. 1985)
  …ne Circuit did adopt a “substantial evidence” standard a few years ago. Aikens v. Lash, 514 F. 2d 55, 60-61 (CA7 1975) (“The term ‘substantial evidence’ need not be something prison officials should be overly concerned about”), vacated and remanded, 425 U. S. 947, modified, 547 F. 2d 372 (1976). However, recent decisions of that court indicate that it may have modified the standard and that the modified version is applied much like the “some evidence” standard. See Brown-Bey v. United States, 720 F. 2d 467,…
• Jones v. Diamond, 636 F.2d 1364 (5th Cir. 1981)
  …, 418 (D.Col.1977); Pennsylvania v. O’Neill, 431 F.Supp. 700, 713 (E.D.Pa.1977), aff’d mem., 573 F. 2d 1301 (3d Cir. 1978); Wallace v. House, 377 F.Supp. 1192, 1206-07 (W.D.La.1974), modified, 515 F. 2d 619 (5th Cir. 1975), vacated on other grounds, 425 U.S. 947, 96 S.Ct. 1721, 48 L.Ed.2d 191 (1976). Counsel must have the assistance of experts to furnish effective and competent representation. In most civil rights litigation, and in prison cases in particular, expert testimony is a vital ingredient in the…