Ross v. Massachusetts’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2007 · most notably California v. Greenwood (1988), Ristaino v. Ross (1976)
52 federal appellate · 8 district · 112 state decisions — followed in 30 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
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Swain v. State of Alabama · Dennis v. United States · Reynolds v. States
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . ignore[d] as judges what we must all know as men . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(t)o deny this petition for certiorari is to see our decision in Ham v. South Carolina ( 409 U.S. 524 , 93 S.Ct. 848, 35 L.Ed.2d 46 (1973)) stillborn and to write an epitaph for those 'essential demands of fairness' recognized by this Court 40 years ago in Aldridge (V. United States, 283 U.S. 308 , 51 S.Ct. 470, 75 L.Ed. 1054 (1931)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ristaino v. Ross“and, therefore, that the trial judge did not err in refusing to make the requested inquiry. 97 This distinction is supported by neither logic nor precedent. 98 The Aldridge Court was not concerned with whether petitioner was unpopular in the community a special target of prejudice but rather with the potential racial”
1 later decision 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.