National Association for the Advancement of Colored People v. Allen Thompson, Mayor of the City of Jackson, Mississippi’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1995 · most notably Allee v. Medrano (1974), Palmer v. Thompson (1971)
22 federal appellate ·
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 Dombrowski v. Pfister · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Cox v. State of Louisiana · Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not protect [defendants] from harassment and intimidation by the law enforcement agencies of the city, county, and State. It does not protect them from arrest en masse on frivolous or unfounded charges; it does not protect them from continued arrest and incarceration until bond could be deposited for their release; * * * it does not protect them from often expensive litigation until their rights are finally vindicated; it does not protect them from being frightened away from the lawful assertion of their rights and lawful protest against the continued denial of them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The record discloses a pattern of conduct on the part of the officials of the city of Jackson that leads us to the conclusion that defendants took advantage of every opportunity, serious or trivial, to break up these demonstrations in protest against racial discrimination, and that a large number of the arrests had no other motive, and some had no justification whatever, either under municipal, State, or Federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reason to believe that there is any intention on the part of defendant[s] to desist from such conduct in the future.”
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.