Law Students Civil Rights Research Council, Inc. v. Wadmond’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 41 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 449 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Younger v. Harris (1971), Broadrick v. Oklahoma (1973)
104 federal appellate · 41 district · 89 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 5 U.S.C. § 3331
Relies on Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Dombrowski v. Pfister · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
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 449 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should not be disciplined . . . without full and unquestioned due process of law and protection of all their constitutional rights . . . . before an unquestionably impartial tribunal”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the character and general fitness requisite for an attorney and counselor-at-law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“most exacting demands of due process of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.