United States v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
514 F.2d 171 · 1975
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably United States v. Brown (1976), United States v. Kirk (1976)
54 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 1863 · 28 U.S.C. § 1867
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Davis v. Alaska · Corallo v. United States · Keeble v. United States · United States v. Louisiana
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the voting lists must be supplemented to obtain jurors from a fair cross section of the community only “where obstacles are placed in the paths of certain citizens attempting to register to vote.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(T)he circuits are in complete agreement that . . . neither the Act nor the Constitution require that a supplemental source of names be added to voter lists simply because an identifiable group votes in a proportion lower than the rest of the population.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he mere fact that one identifiable group of individuals votes in a lower proportion than the rest of the population does not make a jury selection system illegal or unconstitutional.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Floyd Lc v. Garrison
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.