Rawlins v. State of Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
201 U.S. 638 · 1906
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 9 district · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1934), Taylor v. Louisiana (1975)
36 federal appellate · 9 district · 111 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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
Relies on People v. Jewett
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f the state law [] should exclude certain classes [from mandatory jury service] on the bona fide ground that it was for the good of the community that their regular work should not be interrupted, there is nothing in the Fourteenth Amendment to prevent it.”
5 later decisions 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.