Meyer v. Holley’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
126 federal appellate · 72 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 521 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably 133 S. Ct. 2517 - University of Tex. Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar (2013), Staub v. Proctor Hospital (2011)
126 federal appellate · 72 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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
reviewedHolley v. Crank (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 24 (§ 14 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (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. § 3602 (§ 802 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. § 3605 (§ 805 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3608 (§ 808 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3610 (§ 810 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Monge v. California
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 521 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when Congress creates a tort action, it legislates against a legal background of ordinary tort-related vicarious liability rules and consequently intends its legislation to incorporate those rules.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well established that traditional vicarious liability rules ordinarily make principals or employers vicariously liable for acts of their agents or employees in the scope of their authority or employment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“while permitting an inference that Congress intended to apply ordinary background”
4 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.