Hunter v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
249 federal appellate · 67 district · 122 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 700 later decisions (62 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. (1970), Washington v. Davis (1976)
249 federal appellate · 67 district · 122 state decisions — followed in 21 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Reynolds v. Sims · Bolling v. Sharpe · William Marbury v. James Madison · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Shelley v. Kraemer
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 700 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the reality is that the law's impact falls on the minority.”
42 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“achieve legislation that is in their interest.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“an explicitly racial classification treating racial housing matters differently from other racial and housing matters.”
7 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.