CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
156 federal appellate · 136 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 803 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably 133 S. Ct. 2517 - University of Tex. Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar (2013), 14 Penn Plaza LLC v. Pyett (2009)
156 federal appellate · 136 district · 23 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
reviewedHumphries v. CBOCS West, Inc. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78N (§ 14 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 20 U.S.C. § 1681 (§ 901 of the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 215 · 29 U.S.C. § 2615 (§ 105 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 12203 (§ 503 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White · Cort v. Ash · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union
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 803 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and to no other.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“shall have the same right ... to make and enforce contracts ... as is enjoyed by white citizens”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For purposes of this section, the term make and enforce contracts includes the making, performance, modification, and termination of contracts, and the enjoyment of all benefits, privileges, terms, and conditions of the contractual relationship.”
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.