City of Greenwood v. Peacock’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
562 federal appellate · 100 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,428 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Wainwright v. Sykes (1977), Paul v. Davis (1976)
562 federal appellate · 100 district · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPeacock v. City of Greenwood (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 242 · 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 28 U.S.C. § 1443 · 28 U.S.C. § 1446 · 28 U.S.C. § 1447 · 42 U.S.C. § 1971 (Civil Rights Act of 1957) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973I (§ 11 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Townsend v. Sain · Fay v. Noia · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Cited together with Georgia v. Rachel · Johnson v. Mississippi · Dombrowski v. Pfister · Hamm v. City of Rock Hill · Younger v. Harris
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 1,428 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Removal is warranted only if it can be predicted by reference to a law of general application that the defendant will be denied or cannot enforce the specified federal rights in the state courts.”
59 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any of the following civil actions or criminal prosecutions, commenced in a State court may be removed by the defendant to the district court of the United States for the district and division embracing the place wherein it is pending:”
57 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“confers a privilege of removal only upon federal officers or agents and those authorized to act with or for them in affirmatively executing duties under any federal law providing for equal civil rights.”
9 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.