Williams v. Dekalb County’s Empirical Analysis
582 F.2d 2 · 1978
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2001 · most notably General Building Contractors Assn., Inc. v. Pennsylvania (1982), Whiting v. Jackson State University (1980)
37 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
Relies on Washington v. Davis · Williams v. DeKalb County
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that under the teaching of Washington v. Davis, 426 U.S. 229 , 96 S.Ct. 2040 , 48 L.Ed.2d 597 (1978) . . ., the named plaintiff and the class must make a showing of purposeful discrimination before casting the burden on the defendant to rebut the charge; that a claim under § 1981 is, for this purpose, to be equated with a claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, dealt with by the Court in Washington , rather than under Title VII of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act.”
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.