Town of Ball v. Rapides Parish Police Jury’s Empirical Analysis
746 F.2d 1049 · 1984
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Marshall County Board of Education v. Marshall County Gas District (1993), Lofton v. Secretary of the Department of Children & Family Services (2004)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1341
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Dandridge v. Williams
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]eing but creatures of the State, municipal corporations have no standing to invoke the contract clause or the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution in opposition to the will of their creator.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to negative every conceivable basis which might support [the legislative arrangement], whether or not the basis has a foundation in the record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although most classifications are legislative, equal protection also applies to non-legislative state action. See Moose Lodge v. Irvis, 407 U.S. 163, 179 , 92 S.Ct. 1965, 1974 [ 32 L.Ed.2d 627 ] (1972) ("State action, for purposes of the Equal Protection Clause, may emanate from rulings of administration and regulatory agencies as well as from legislative or judicial action.”); see also Shelly v. Kraemer, 334 U.S. 1, 14 , 68 S.Ct. 836, 842 [ 92 L.Ed. 1161 ] (1948) (judicial action); Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356, 373 , 6 S.Ct. 1064 , 1072 [ 30 L.Ed. 220 ] (1886) (administrative action).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Morrow
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.