Liddell v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 768 · 1976
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Kevin Armstrong v. Board Of School Directors Of The City Of Milwaukee (1980), Liddell v. State of Missouri Liddell (1984)
37 federal appellate · 2 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Milliken v. Bradley · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. New York · Carter v. Jury Commission of Greene County · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only partially approved specific plans for desegregation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“find[s] that intervention should be allowed”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Intervention of right is required under' the rule when: (1) the petitioners assert an interest in the subject matter of the primary litigation; (2) there exists a possibility that the petitioners’ interest will be impaired by the final disposition of the litigation; (3) there exists a danger of inadequate protection by the party representing the petitioners’ interests; and the petitioners have made timely application to intervene. [Liddell v. Caldwell, 546 F.2d 768, 770 (8th Cir. 1976), cert. denied 433 U.S. 914 , 97 S.Ct. 2987 , 53 L.Ed.2d 1100 (1977)]”
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.