Fleming v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Gazette, Inc. v. Harris (1985), Ida Maxwell Wells v. G. Gordon Liddy, Phillip MacKin Bailley, Movant (1999)
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 71 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 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Hutchinson v. Proxmire · Time, Inc. v. Firestone · Wolston v. Reader's Digest Assn., Inc.
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“prejudice [a] person in his or her profession or trade.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“the skills or character required to carry out the particular occupation of the plaintiff.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““I do not expect any Farmington members to buy my houses. The tenured position-holders who live off the public dole at the expense of the working people are already well-housed, and could not be expected to live in a racially-integrated neighborhood, anyhow. “There is a great deal of irony in the fact that here in Mr. Jefferson’s country 200 years after his vision of situating his beloved Monticello upon the hilltop overlooking the developing community we have a replica of Monticello upon the hill overlooking my property which is occupied by a man who wants to deprive working people of the same opportunities that Mr. Jefferson sought for them. Mr. Jefferson even located his slaves’ quarters down the hill from his house, but Bedford Moore, the occupant of little Monticello does not want any black people within his sight.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.