Mahone v. Waddle’s Empirical Analysis
564 F.2d 1018 · 1977
Citation profile
89 federal appellate · 25 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 210 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Jett v. Dallas Independent School District (1989), Tomka v. Seiler Corp. (1995)
89 federal appellate · 25 district · 3 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 1 U.S.C. § 204 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1443 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 28 U.S.C. § 41 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Scheuer v. Rhodes · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle
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 210 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.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“it is ... racially motivated refusal to make a contract which can cause harm”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“that the existence of an effective and substantial federal statutory remedy for the plaintiffs obviates the need to imply a constitutional remedy on the plaintiffs' behalf.”
6 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.