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386 F.2d 832 · 1967

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
January 2005
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2005

7 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions

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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)

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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “been deprived `of his property and personal rights and professional status, contrary to the Constitution and laws of the United States'”
    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.