McCarthy v. Briscoe’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 1353 · 1976
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2016
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Williams v. Rhodes · Hadnott v. Amos · Sallie M. Hadnott v. Mabel S. Amos, Etc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the complaint was so lately filed there is insufficient time for a court to devise a petition requirement for ascertaining whether McCarthy has substantial community support 5 in Texas without disrupting the entire election process in that state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCarthy v. Briscoe
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.