Clark v. Universal Builders, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
501 F.2d 324 · 1974
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016 · most notably Blackie v. Barrack (1975), Hampton v. Hanrahan (1979)
54 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Conley v. Gibson · North Carolina v. Pearce · Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. · United States v. Price
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The taking of depositions of absent class members ' is — as is true of written’ interrogatories — appropriate in special circumstances.''). 18 .The dissent suggests that we proclaim this rule “without any citation to authority.” Of course, our dissenting colleague fails to pro.vide any citation to authority to support a contrary rule.. In fact, the only authorities that we can find to support the dissent’s position are the District Court’s opinion in this case, and another district court opinion from the Eastern”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a showing of “treating, in similar circumstances, a member or members of one race different from the manner in which members of another race are treated.” That is, a black prospective buyer of a dwelling demonstrates discriminatory conduct if he proves that an owner utilizes different pricing policies with respect to blacks and whites similarly situated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“as a result of racial residential segregation dual housing markets exist and ... defendant sellers took advantage of this situation by demanding prices and terms unreasonably in excess of prices and terms available to white citizens for comparable housing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.