Freddie Roach v. G. T. Mauldin, Sheriff of Whitfield County, Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
391 F.2d 907 · 1968
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Brown v. Allen · Whitus v. State of Georgia Whitus · Lipsett Steel Products, Inc. v. Mosley · Billingsley v. Clayton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the absence of racial considerations the use of tax digests, which necessarily exclude nonproperty owners, seems to have been settled as not prima facie unconstitutional * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peters v. Rutledge
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.