Thompson v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
490 F.2d 830 · 1974
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. James (1976), United States v. Davis (1977)
21 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 · Whitus v. State of Georgia Whitus · Turner v. Fouche · Cassell v. Texas · Carter v. Jury Commission of Greene County
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[it] cannot say that purposeful discrimination based on race alone is satisfactorily proved by showing that an identifiable group in a community is underrepresented by as much as 10%.” Swain, 380 U.S. at 208-09 , 85 S.Ct. 824 . But”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We conclude that a jury list drawn objectively, mechanically, and at random from the entire voting list of a county is entitled to the presumption that it is drawn from a source which is a fairly representative cross-section of the inhabitants of that jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he record is silent as to how much of this disparity was due to exemptions claimed, inability to deliver the questionnaires, and failure to return them.”
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.