Taggart v. Mandel’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 8 U.S.C. § 1445 (§ 334 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Dunn v. Blumstein · Snowden v. Hughes · Graham v. Richardson · Bullock v. Carter
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]lassifications based on alienage, like those based on nationality or race, are inherently suspect and subject to close judicial scrutiny. Aliens as a class are a prime example of a 'discrete and insular' minority . . . for whom such heightened judicial solicitude is appropriate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bernal v. Fainter
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.