Lindsay v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis
498 F.3d 434 · 2007
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Aktieselskabet Af 21. November 2001 v. Fame Jeans Inc. (2008), White v. Baxter Healthcare Corp. (2008)
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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) · 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 3603 (§ 803 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3604 (§ 804 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Conley v. Gibson · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Erickson v. Pardus
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the general rule that a federal appellate court does not consider an issue not passed upon below.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he legal standards for adjudicating Rule 12(b)(6) and Rule 12(c) motions are the same....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Plaintiffs] allege that the Yateses advertised their house for sale, that they (the Lindsays) executed a purchase agreement to buy the house, and that nearly two weeks after signing the purchase agreement and depositing $500 in earnest money with Brent Yates— and one day after Brent learned they were black — the Yateses terminated the contract.”
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.