Hill v. State of Texas’s Empirical Analysis
316 U.S. 400 · 1942
Citation profile
223 federal appellate · 21 district · 231 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 751 later decisions (106 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division (2003), Batson v. Kentucky (1986)
223 federal appellate · 21 district · 231 state decisions — followed in 33 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 Tumey v. State of Ohio · Smith v. Texas · Neal v. Delaware · Pierre v. State of Louisiana
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 751 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]iscrimination [in Orleans Parish] arise[s] from the action of commissioners who exclude all Negroes whom they do not know to be qualified and who neither know nor seek to learn whether there are in fact any qualified to serve.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“5. He must not have been convicted of any felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ross v. State
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.