Meredith v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
306 F.2d 374 · 1962
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1997 · most notably United States v. Barnett (1964), United States v. Fordice (1992)
42 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 2101
Relies on Rosenberg v. Denno · United States v. State of Louisiana Earl Benjamin Bush v. Orleans Parish School Board Harry K. Williams v. Jimmie H. Davis · Rosenberg v. United States · Magnum Import Co. v. Coty · Lucy v. Adams
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“issue [the injunction] as prayed for in the complaint.”
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.