Arnold v. Tiffany’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2000 · most notably James H. McLellan v. Mississippi Power & Light Company, International Brotherhood of Electricalworkers, Local 605 Electrical Workers (1977), Novotny v. Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1978)
10 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Griffin v. Breckenridge · Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. · Schetter v. Heim · 343 F. Supp. 70 - Marshall v. Plumbers and Steamfitters Local Union 60
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“irrational and odious class discrimination akin to racial bias-such as discrimination based on national origin or religion.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the well-pleaded material allegations of the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.