Melancon v. McKeithen’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2010 · most notably Alexander v. Virginia (1973), Mayes v. Ellis (1972)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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. § 1861 (Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968)
Relies on Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · William Parsons v. Bedford Breedlove · Walker v. Sauvinet · Karr v. Schmidt · 149 So. 2d 732 - Fortenberry v. Scogin
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] civil jury trial is not so implicit within the concept of ordered liberty in a cooperative federalism as to be required of the states by due process” (internal quotations and brackets omitted)), affd sub nom., Hill v. McKeithen, 409 U.S. 943 , 93 S.Ct. 289 , 34 L.Ed.2d 214 (1972). 23 . HAR 26 costs may include those costs incurred by the party but”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.”
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.