Preston v. Mandeville’s Empirical Analysis
428 F.2d 1392 · 1970
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2000 · most notably Amadeo v. Zant (1988), Horton v. Zant (1991)
36 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Smith v. Texas · Turner v. Fouche · Carter v. Jury Commission of Greene County · United States of America Ex Rel. Willie Seals, Jr. v. Martin J. Wiman, Warden, Kilby Prison, Montgomery, Alabama
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.
“made out a prima facie case of discrimination based on race.”
1 later decision 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.