Ethridge v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 1999 · most notably Contractors Ass'n of Eastern Pennsylvania v. Secretary of Labor (1971), Dobbins v. Local 212, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (1968)
15 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 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 Monroe v. Pape · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Brown v. Board of Education · Civil Rights Cases
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a venture, such as this one, where the state as a governmental entity becomes a joint participant with private persons, (for the construction of public facilities) the restrictions of the Fourteenth Amendment apply not only to" the actions of the state but also to the acts of its private partners — -the contractors — and the state is bound to affirmatively insure compliance with the constitutional provisions.””
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.