Taylor v. McKeithen’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017 · most notably Northcross v. Board of Education of Memphis City Schools (1973), Connor v. Finch (1977)
45 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2071 (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Amendments) · 42 U.S.C. § 1973C (§ 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965)
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Lego v. Twomey · National Labor Relations Board v. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America · Gomillion v. Lightfoot
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We of course, agree that the courts of appeals should have wide latitude in their decisions of whether or how to write opinions. That is especially true with respect to summary affirmances. See Rule 21, Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'the federal courts are often going to be faced with hard remedial problems' in minimizing friction between their remedies and legitimate state policies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Connor v. Finch
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.