United States v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.2d 1213 · 1972
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 9 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably United States v. John E. Test, Francis R. Salazar v. United States of America, United States of America v. Enrique Sandoval Chavez, United States of America v. Cameron David Bishop (1976), United States v. Brady (1978)
44 federal appellate · 9 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 15 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 28 U.S.C. § 1861 (Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 1863 · 28 U.S.C. § 1865 · 28 U.S.C. § 1867 · 28 U.S.C. § 1869 · 28 U.S.C. § 1871 · 50 U.S.C. § 3811
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Bolling v. Sharpe · Dunn v. Blumstein · Schneider v. Rusk · DiTommaso v. United States
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This reluctance is justified in light of the fact that the parameters of such a group are difficult to ascertain, as evidenced by the widely varying ages which have been used to define it, and that its membership and their values are constantly in flux. There appears to be no factor other than age which defines this group, and we can perceive no reason to arbitrarily single out a narrow group of ‘young persons’ as opposed to ‘middle-aged’ or ‘old’ persons for purposes of jury duty.” Id. at p. 1217.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“specify whether the names of prospective jurors shall be selected from the voter registration lists or the lists of actual voters.... The plan shall prescribe some other source or sources of names in addition to voter lists where necessary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The Act] and its legislative history clearly contemplate that the use of sources other than voter lists will be the exception rather than the rule.”
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.