McCall v. Shapiro’s Empirical Analysis
416 F.2d 246 · 1969
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1987 · most notably Maine v. Thiboutot (1980), Chapman v. Houston Welfare Rights Organization (1979)
25 federal appellate · 17 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. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 407 (§ 207 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · King v. Smith · Douglas v. City of Jeannette · Bailey v. Patterson
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]o redress the deprivation, under color of any State law, ... of any right, privilege or immunity secured by the Constitution of the United States or by any Act of Congress providing for equal rights of citizens or of all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"* * * [W]henever the right or immunity is one of personal liberty, not dependent for its existence upon the infringement of property rights, there is jurisdiction in the district court under [the Civil Rights Act] * * *."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'an Act of Congress providing for the protection of civil rights,' even if it does not secure rights in and of itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morris v. Danna · Andrews v. Maher
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.