Smith v. Yeager’s Empirical Analysis
465 F.2d 272 · 1972
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023 · most notably Mayor of Philadelphia v. Educational Equality League (1974), United States v. Jenkins (1974)
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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. § 1861 (Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968)
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Jones v. Cunningham · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Gooding v. Wilson · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he comparative [disparity] approach reaches absurd results... where the [African-American] population at the time was 4.4% of the total, and the [African-American] jury participation ranged as low as 2% of the jury list). Courts considering this analysis have said that while”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * * * * (b) In making such determination the chief judge of the district court or such other district court judge as the plan may provide, shall deem any person qualified to serve on grand and petit juries in the district court unless he— (1) is not a citizen of the United States eighteen years old who has resided for a period of one year within the judicial district; (2) is unable to read, write, and understand the English language with a degree of proficiency sufficient to fill out satisfactorily the juror qualification form; (3) is unable to speak the English language; * * * * * *”
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.