229 F. Supp. 445 - Chaffee v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2002 · most notably Simer v. Rios (1981), Alliance to End Repression v. Rochford (1977)
8 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on Douglas v. City of Jeannette · Harrison v. National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People · Toucey v. New York Life Insurance · Amalgamated Clothing Workers v. Richman Bros. · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The complaint described the alleged class as all persons who are workers for the end of discrimination and segregation in Mississippi, for the encouragement of the exercise by Negroes in Mississippi of their right to vote and to register to vote, and for the exercise and preservation of civil rights generally in Mississippi. Clearly this is not a proper class action. The vague and indefinite description of the purported class depends upon the state of mind of a particular individual, rendering it difficult, if not impossible, to determine whether any given individual is within or without the alleged class. The members of a class must be capable of definite identification as being either in or out of it."”
4 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.