Pullum v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
396 F.2d 251 · 1968
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2006 · most notably Carter v. Jury Commission of Greene County (1970), Rush Pettway, Etc. v. American Cast Iron Pipe Company, United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Intervenor (1974)
25 federal appellate · 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
Relies on United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Plessy v. Ferguson · Norris v. State of Alabama · Smith v. Texas · Whitus v. State of Georgia Whitus
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he purpose of an injunction is to prevent future violations.”
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.