Tracy Sidle v. William C. Majors’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.2d 1156 · 1976
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015
11 federal appellate · 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Dandridge v. Williams · Reed v. Reed · Hicks v. Miranda · Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Therefore, despite our doubts about the current validity of the rule in Silver v. Silver, supra, we are obligated to affirm. Hicks v. Miranda, supra, 422 U.S. at 345 , 95 S.Ct. at 2290, 45 L.Ed.2d at 236 . Although we are the first court of appeals to consider the equal protection challenge to a guest statute, the high courts of several states have already grappled with the problem, and the split among them has been noted (supra p. 1159). Indeed the Supreme Courts of Nevada and New Mexico invalidated their states’ guest statutes after the Supreme Court of the United States acted in Cannon. See Laakonen v. Eighth Judicial District Court, supra; McGeehan v. Bunch, supra [ 88 N.M. 308 , 540 P.2d 238 (1975)]. The frequency with which the question has arisen and the disagreement among the high courts of several states attests to the importance of the issue, its difficulty and the need for conclusive resolution so that the present viability of Silver v. Silver can be authoritatively determined.” Sidle v. Majors, 536 F.2d 1156 (7th Cir. 1976) at 1160.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. Does the Indiana Guest Statute contravene Article 1, Section 12 of the Indiana Constitution?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coons v. Lawlor“2. Does said Act contravene Article 1, Section 23 of the Indiana Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coons v. Lawlor
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.