McHaney v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2012
5 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 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. § 3604 (§ 804 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Kugler v. Helfant · Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad v. United States · United States of America, Appellant-Appellee v. City of Black Jack, Missouri, Appellee-Appellant
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Recent eases make clear that the statutes prohibit all forms of discrimination, sophisticated as well as simple-minded, and thus disparity of treatment between whites and blacks, burdensome application procedures, and tactics of delay, hindrance, and special treatment must receive short shrift from the courts ... [t]he courts will look beyond the form of a transaction to its substance and proscribe practices which actually or predictably result in racial discrimination, irrespective of defendant’s motivation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“1) that the plaintiffs are members of a racial minority; 2) that plaintiffs applied for or were qualified to rent or purchase the property; 3) that plaintiffs were rejected; and 4) that the opportunity to purchase the property remained open.”
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.