Scott v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
421 F.2d 143 · 1970
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Patterson v. McLean Credit Union (1989), Goland v. Central Intelligence Agency (1978)
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 5 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 Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. · Illinois ex rel. Kennedy v. Hurley · Daniel v. Paul · Marrone v. Washington Jockey Club
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ll persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State . . . to make and enforce contracts . . . as is enjoyed by white citizens.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sources of entertainment which move in commerce”
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.