Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
98 federal appellate · 57 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 341 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Patterson v. McLean Credit Union (1989), Jett v. Dallas Independent School District (1989)
98 federal appellate · 57 district · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedShaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · Saint Francis College v. Al-Khazraji · Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb · Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb
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 341 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Based on the history of § 1981, we have little trouble in concluding that Congress intended to protect from discrimination identifiable classes of persons who are subjected to intentional discrimination solely because of their ancestry or ethnic characteristics. Such discrimination is racial discrimination that Congress intended § 1981 to forbid, whether or not it would be classified as racial in terms of modern scientific theory.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the same right ... as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Arabs were among the peoples then considered to be distinct races and hence within the protection of the statute.”
3 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.