Richardson v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
709 F.2d 1016 · 1983
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 12 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Missouri v. Jenkins Ex Rel. Agyei (1989), Allison v. Citgo Petroleum Corp. (1998)
40 federal appellate · 12 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Hensley v. Eckerhart · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . is charged with the duty of monitoring its class decisions in light of the evidentiary development of the case”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the defendant Sheriff's practice of restricting the assignment of all new female deputies to the jail, a practice which, because the number of positions offered females was smaller than that offered males, necessarily limited the number of females that could then be transferred to more desirable positions in the Sheriff's office. The court found”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“entirely subjective decision-making processes”
2 later decisions 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.