Fisher v. Hurst’s Empirical Analysis
333 U.S. 147 · 1948
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1984 · most notably Sweatt v. Painter (1950), Browder v. Gayle (1956)
10 federal appellate · 9 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 State of Missouri Gaines v. Canada · Sipuel v. Board of Regents · Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The State must provide [legal education] for [petitioner] in conformity with the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and provide it as soon as it does for applicants of any other group.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sweatt v. Painter“did not present the issue whether a state might not satisfy the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by establishing a separate law school for Negroes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sweatt v. Painter“[w]hether or not the order is followed or disobeyed should be determined by [the District Court] in the first instance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.