Betts v. Easley’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1988
11 state decisions
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 45 U.S.C. § 151A
Relies on Mooney v. Holohan · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Virginian Ry Co v. System Federation No 40 · Smith v. Allwright · Civil Rights Cases
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The situation in which they [plaintiffs] find themselves must be viewed realistically. Without such appraisal of facts and circumstances, courts would often have been unable, through the years, to safeguard the rights of individuals and minorities. Mere technical arguments, which disregard realities, speak with feeble force when basic freedoms are jeopardized.” (Emphasis added.) Betts v. Easley (1946), 161 Kan. 459, 469 , 169 P. 2d 831, 839 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.