Smith v. Hampton Training School for Nurses’s Empirical Analysis
360 F.2d 577 · 1966
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably Curtis v. Loether (1974), Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny (1979)
62 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 291
Relies on Mapp v. Ohio · Monroe v. Pape · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Ker v. State of California · Linkletter v. Walker
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not one for damages; it is an integral part of the equitable remedy of reinstatement, and should be determined by the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There was no lawful basis for the ... discharges, and the plaintiffs are entitled to be restored to the positions they occupied when they attempted to assert their rights.... Otherwise they would not be made whole, and similar discriminatory discharges would be encouraged.”
2 later decisions 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.