James v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
533 F.2d 963 · 1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably 505 F. Supp. 224 - Vuyanich v. Republic Nat. Bank of Dallas (1980), Finch v. Mississippi State Medical Ass'n (1978)
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Rodriguez v. New York · Alexander v. Louisiana · Turner v. Fouche · Mayor of Philadelphia v. Educational Equality League
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“until it is shown the policies espoused by the governor and put into practice by his appointees violate the constitutional rights of any of the state's citizens, the governor must be accorded the right to use subjective criteria in selecting the persons whom he appoints to implement his policies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“this is not a case in which it can be assumed that all citizens are fungible for purposes of determining whether members of a particular class have been unlawfully excluded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Weber“no basis for concluding that the Governor's choice of nominees for the appointments was racially discriminatory”
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.