Samuel Britt v. Elwood S. McKenney’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 44 · 1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Gross v. Summa Four, Inc. (1996), Doe v. the Governor (1980)
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 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 Roe v. Wade · Gerstein v. Pugh · Pierson v. Ray · O'Shea v. Littleton · United State v. Morgan
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If none of the named plaintiffs may maintain action on their own behalf, they may not seek such relief on behalf of a class.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The state need not provide such a probable cause hearing before prosecuting on an indictment, and an error at such a hearing would not void a subsequent indictment or conviction.”
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.