Marr v. Rife’s Empirical Analysis
503 F.2d 735 · 1974
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2008 · most notably Meyer v. Holley (2003), Cabrera v. Jakabovitz (1994)
48 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000B · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Hall v. Cole · Brady v. United States · Green v. Wolf Corp.
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“broad legislative plan to eliminate all traces of discrimination within the housing field,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(c) The court may grant as relief, a"s it deems appropriate, any permanent or temporary injunction, temporary restraining order, or other order, and may award to the plaintiff actual damages and not more than $1,000 punitive damages, together with court costs and reasonable attorney fees in the case of a prevailing plaintiff: Provided, that the said plaintiff . in the opinion of the Court is not financially able to assume said attorney’s fees.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The discriminatory conduct of an apartment manager or rental agent is, as a general rule, attributable to the owner and property manager of the apartment complex, both under the doctrine of respondeat superior and because the duty to obey the law is non-delegable.”
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.