Jacobs v. Barr’s Empirical Analysis
959 F.2d 313 · 1992
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2017
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Allen v. Wright · Regents of the University of California v. Bakke · Jenkins v. McKeithen · City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]lthough courts should not defer to Congress on constitutional questions, we should defer-or give `great weight'-to Congress on empirical questions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Congress’s finding that Japanese-Ameri-eans were the victims of prejudice ... is amply supported by historical evidence that the internment policy extended to Japanese American but not to German-American children. Congress, therefore, had clear and sufficient reason to compensate interns of Japanese but not German descent; and the compensation is ... narrowly tailored to Congress’s compelling interest in redressing a shameful example of national discrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“"When the injury alleged is the denial of equal protection, plaintiffs must also allege that they are being denied equal treatment solely as a result of the classification they are challenging.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.