621 F. Supp. 992 - Alston v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1861 (Jury Selection and Service Act of 1968) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Picard v. Connor · Duren v. Missouri · Castaneda v. Partida · Hazelwood School District v. United States
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o attempt has been made to demonstrate that the town quota system serves a legitimate state purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alston v. Manson
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.