Morrison v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
252 F.2d 102 · 1958
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1980 · most notably Garner v. State of Louisiana Briscoe (1961), Familias Unidas v. Briscoe (1980)
23 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Douglas v. City of Jeannette · Bailey v. Patterson · Holophane Co. v. United States · Browder v. Gayle
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That case disposes of the contention that the federal court should not grant an injunction against the application or enforcement of a state statute, the violation of which carries criminal sanctions. This is not such a case as requires the withhold ing of federal court action for reason of comity, since for the protection of civil rights of the kind asserted Congress has created a separate and distinct federal cause of action. 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 . Whatever may be the rule as to other threatened prosecutions, the Supreme Court in a case presenting an identical factual issue affirmed the judgment of the trial court in the Browder case in which the same contention was advanced. To the extent that this is inconsistent with Douglas v. City of Jeannette, Pa., 319 U.S. 157 , 63 S.Ct. 877 , 87 L.Ed. ISM, we must consider the earlier case modified.” Morrison v. Davis, 5 Cir. 1958, 252 F.2d 102, at 103 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]o have incidents requiring arrests to have the rights of people declared.””
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.