Quinn v. Millsap’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2022 · most notably Northeastern Florida Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America v. City of Jacksonville (1993), Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 26 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 Baker v. Carr · Michigan v. Long · Bullock v. Carter · Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. · City of Revere v. Massachusetts General Hospital
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who owns a freehold estate; that is, an estate in lands, tenements, or hereditaments of an indeterminate duration, other than an estate at will or by suffrance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Millsap v. Quinn“it is a form of invidious discrimination to require land ownership of all appointees to a body authorized to propose reorganization of local government,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Millsap v. Quinn“no substantial reason to believe that appellees' interpretation might be accepted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Millsap v. Quinn
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.