Reitman v. Mulkey’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
470 federal appellate · 120 district · 274 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,400 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. (1977)
470 federal appellate · 120 district · 274 state decisions — followed in 27 states
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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Shelley v. Kraemer
Cited together with Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Shelley v. Kraemer · Moose Lodge No. 107 v. Irvis · Evans v. Newton · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.
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 1,400 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expressly authorized and constitutionalized the private right to discriminate.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“significantly involved itself with invidious discriminations,”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`immediate objective,' its `ultimate effect' and its historical context and the conditions existing prior to its enactment.”
6 later decisions 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.