Adams v. Lucy’s Empirical Analysis
228 F.2d 619 · 1955
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1991
11 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
Relies on Lucy v. Adams · Lucy v. Adams · Lucy v. Adams
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The decree of the Supreme Court of the United States, entered on October 10, 1955, reinstated the injunction embraced in the judgment of this court dated July 1, 1955, to the extent that the defendant, William F. Adams, his servants, agents, assistants and employees, and those who might aid, abet, and act in concert with him, are permanently enjoined and restrained from denying the plaintiffs the right to enroll in the University of Alabama and pursue courses of study thereat, solely on account of their race or color. "2. The action of defendant, William F. Adams, in refusing to permit the plaintiffs to register as students at the University of Alabama during the current semester did not violate the judgment of this court dated July 1, 1955.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lucy v. Adams“13. The defendant has not, since the entry of the decree of July 1, 1955, denied the plaintiffs the right to enroll in the University of Alabama and pursue courses of study thereat, solely on account of their race or color. The action of defendant in refusing to permit the plaintiffs to register as students at the University of Alabama was based solely on the fact that they did not present themselves at the University of Alabama for registration as students on, or prior to, Oct. 6, 1955.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lucy v. Adams
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.