Oburn v. Shapp’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1995
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Shelley v. Kraemer · Hansberry v. Lee · Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · Wetzel v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Core v. Norwalk Redevelopment Agency
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there was ... a change in the selection procedure [in related case] the consent decree in [that case] requires the defendants ... to submit it to the court for approval”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Provided selection in this manner results in a class which shall be comprised of at least one-third (1/3) minority members until the above described nine point two percent (9.2%) quota is reached. If selection of a class in this manner does not produce the aforesaid result and if there are additional minorities in the pool of qualified applicants, said qualified minorities shall be selected for the class until either the aforesaid ratio is reached for the class or the pool of qualified minorities is exhausted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oburn v. Shapp“percent of minorities in the Pennsylvania labor force from which State Policeman and women are selected.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oburn v. Shapp
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.