Without getting into a longwinded discussion of specifics, QI as a concept within the legal system has existed for quite a long time. The case you cite is where it was codified into an explict short-circuit that prevented the cases from being filed in the first place.
I take it you believe the US became a functioning democracy in 1967, then?
That's when Pierson v. Ray was decided and QI was invented.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson_v._Ray