People, Ex Rel. King v. . Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1995 · most notably Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. (1968), Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 13 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
Relies on Strauder v. West Virginia · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Ex parte Virginia · Cory v. Carter · People Ex Rel. Gas-Light Co. v. . Common Council
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this end can neither be accomplished nor promoted by laws which conflict with the general sentiment of the community upon whom they are designed to operate. When the government, therefore, has secured to each of its citizens equal rights before the law and equal opportunities for improvement and progress, it has accomplished the end for which it was organized and performed all of the functions respecting social advantages with which it is endowed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Plessy v. Ferguson
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.