McCrary ex rel. McCrary v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
515 F.2d 1082 · 1975
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Runyon v. McCrary (1976), Bob Jones University v. United States (1983)
32 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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
Relationships
Relies on Roe v. Wade · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'may not reverse a trier of fact, who had the advantage of hearing the testimony, on the question of credibility.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““a denial of those statutory rights is treatment of the victim as being subject to those earlier disabilities. It is an affront, of which embarrassment and humiliation are natural consequences. If the statute is to be enforced fairly, if injuries suffered directly because of its violation are to be fairly compensated, damages for embarrassment and humiliation must be recoverable in a case such as this.” Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the same right . . . to make and enforce contracts . . . as is enjoyed by white citizens . . . .”
2 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.