Moore v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 482 · 1975
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably City of Memphis v. Greene (1981), Resident Advisory Board ex rel. Wylie v. Rizzo (1977)
28 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. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 3601 (§ 801 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3612 (§ 812 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Curtis v. Loether · Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc. · Brandenburger v. Thompson · Hairston v. R & R Apartments
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[r]ace is an impermissible consideration in a real estate transaction, and it need only be established that race played some part in the refusal to deal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox
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.