Lee v. Hansberry’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2003 · most notably Hansberry v. Lee (1940), Richards v. Jefferson County (1996)
5 federal appellate · 13 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 Groves v. Farmers State Bank · In re Assessment of Northwestern University · Burke v. Kleiman
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on behalf of herself and on behalf of all other property owners in the district,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sold, leased to or permitted to be occupied by any person of the colored race,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hansberry v. Lee
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.