McCall v. Batson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 178 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 210 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Hodges v. Rainey (2000), Wichita Falls State Hospital v. Taylor (2003)
10 federal appellate · 178 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Hopkins v. Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina · Mayle v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways · Willis v. Department of Conservation & Economic Development · Nieting v. Blondell · Mower v. Inhabitants of Leicester
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 210 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he abrogation of the rule will not extend to legislative, judicial and executive acts by individuals acting in their official capacity. These discretionary activities cannot be controlled by threat of tort liability by members of the public who take issue with the decisions made by public officials. We expressly decline to allow tort liability for these discretionary acts. The exercise of discretion includes the right to be wrong.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(2) Sovereign immunity will not bar recovery in any case currently pending or in those filed on or before July 1, 1986, provided the defendant has liability insurance coverage. Recovery shall not exceed the limits of the liability insurance coverage. (3) Sovereign immunity shall not apply to any case filed after July 1, 1986.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the law is to be changed, such change should come from the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Russo v. Sutton
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.