WISE Et Al. v. LIPSCOMB Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably Wise v. Lipscomb (1978), Graddick, Attorney General of Alabama v. Newman Et Al. (1981)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Burns v. Richardson · Gaffney v. Cummings · East Carroll Parish School Board v. Marshall · Fortson v. Dorsey
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The judgment of the court below is presumed to be valid, and absent unusual circumstances we defer to the decision of that court not to stay its judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.