Grady County, Georgia v. Imogene Wright Dickerson’s Empirical Analysis
257 F.2d 369 · 1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1973
3 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury · Clark v. Barnard · Great Northern Life Ins Co v. Read · Lincoln County v. Luning · Kennecott Copper Corporation v. State Tax Commission Silver King Coalition Mines Co
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the legislature of the state has imposed a duty upon counties and has provided for actions against counties to enforce liability for breaches of such duty, the state may not deprive the courts of the United States of the jurisdiction which it has under the Constitution and laws of the United States to decide cases where enforcement of such liabilities is sought.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Vermont
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.