Richards v. Thurston’s Empirical Analysis
424 F.2d 1281 · 1970
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 21 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Kelley v. Johnson (1976), Olff v. East Side Union High School District (1972)
56 federal appellate · 21 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 22 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Schmerber v. State of California · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · United States v. O'Brien · Rochin v. People of California
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crews v. Cloncs · Bishop v. Colaw“has not been generally understood in the latter sense is indicated by the definition of privacy given by Alan F. Westin in his wide-ranging book Privacy and Freedom, (1967), at p. 7:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to appear au naturel at home is relinquished when one sets foot on a public sidewalk”
2 later decisions 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.