Eubanks v. State of Louisiana’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
169 federal appellate · 14 district · 214 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 555 later decisions (62 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2005 · most notably Washington v. Davis (1976), Swain v. State of Alabama (1965)
169 federal appellate · 14 district · 214 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Strauder v. West Virginia · Hernandez v. Texas · Norris v. State of Alabama · Smith v. Texas · Cassell v. 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 555 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * This is essentially the situation here. True, the judges now serving on the local court testified generally that they had not discriminated against Negroes in choosing grand juries, and had only tried to pick the best available jurors. But as Chief Justice Hughes said for the Court in Norris v. State of Alabama, 294 U.S. 587 , 598, 55 S.Ct. 579, 584, 79 L.Ed. 1074, `If, in the presence of such testimony as defendant adduced, the mere general assertions by officials of their performance of duty were to be accepted as an adequate justification for the complete exclusion of negroes from jury service, the [Equal Protection Clause] — adopted with special reference to their protection — would be but a vain and illusory requirement.' Compare Reece v. State of Georgia, 350 U.S. 85 , 88, 76 S.Ct. 167, 169, 100 L.Ed. 77; Hernandez v. State of Texas, 347 U.S. 475 , 481, 74 S.Ct. 667, 671, 98 L.Ed. 866.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not at liberty to grant or withhold the benefits . . . which the Constitution commands for all, merely as we may deem the defendant innocent or guilty.”
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.