Green v. Cauthen’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2008
4 federal appellate · 4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D · 42 U.S.C. § 3711 (Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Act of 1998) · 42 U.S.C. § 3757
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Hansberry v. Lee · Barr v. Matteo · Snowden v. Hughes
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the party opposing the class has acted . . . on grounds generally applicable to the class . . .”
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.