Cassell v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
339 U.S. 282 · 1950
Citation profile
414 federal appellate · 46 district · 466 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,211 later decisions (84 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Batson v. Kentucky (1986), Teague v. Lane (1989)
414 federal appellate · 46 district · 466 state decisions — followed in 36 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 Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Strauder v. West Virginia · Watts v. Indiana · Douglas v. City of Jeannette
Cited together with Akins v. Texas · Swain v. State of Alabama · Smith v. Texas · Hernandez v. Texas · Hill v. State of Texas
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 1,211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An accused is entitled to have charges against him considered by a jury in the selection of which there has been neither inclusion nor exclusion because of race.”
48 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rose v. Mitchell · Davis v. Davis““In an unbroken line of cases stretching back almost 80 years this Court has held that a criminal defendant is denied the equal protection of the laws as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment if he is indicted by a grand jury or tried by a petit jury from which members of his race have been excluded because of their race. ij< % >>”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Acting under the Texas statutes, the Dallas County grand-jury commissioners chose a list of sixteen males for this September 1947 grand jury from citizens eligible under the statute. The judge chose twelve of these for the panel. No challenge is now made to the fairness of this statutory system. We have approved it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Walker
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.