Sherbrooke Turf, Inc. v. Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Empirical Analysis
345 F.3d 964 · 2003
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Barrett v. Claycomb (2013), Western States Paving Co. v. Washington State Department of Transportation (2005)
16 federal appellate · 6 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 637
Relies on Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · United States v. Salerno · Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena · City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Co. · Fullilove v. Klutznick
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o be narrowly tailored, a national program must be limited to those parts of the country where race-based measures are demonstrably needed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining whether a race-conscious remedy is narrowly tailored, we look at factors such as the efficacy of alternative remedies, the flexibility and duration of the race-conscious remedy, the relationship of the numerical goals to the relevant labor market, and the impact of the remedy on third parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Congress has spent decades compiling evidence of race discrimination in government highway contracting, of barriers to the formation of minority-owned construction businesses, and of barriers to entry.”
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.