Lucy v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1991
10 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Sweatt v. Painter · State of Missouri Gaines v. Canada · McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education · Sipuel v. Board of Regents
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no written policy or rule excluding prospective students from admission to the University on account of race or color. However, there is a tacit policy to that effect.” Lucy v. Adams, N.D.Ala., 1955, 134 F.Supp. 235 , 239; aff’d 5 Cir., 228 F.2d 619 ; cert. den’d., 351 U.S. 931 , 76 S.Ct. 790 , 100 L.Ed. 1460 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meredith v. Fair
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.