Sorenson v. Raymond’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.2d 496 · 1976
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2000
10 federal appellate · 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. § 3604 (§ 804 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Wingo v. Wedding · Pierson v. Ray
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to foster consent agreements we have held that in general a consent decree is not binding on parties not in privity with the parties to the decree.”
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.