Foster v. Barilow’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.3d 405 · 1993
Citation profile
183 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 303 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Lillard v. Shelby County Board of Education (1996), Scottsdale Insurance v. Flowers (2008)
183 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 3602 (§ 802 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3613 (§ 813 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968)) · 42 U.S.C. § 3617 (§ 818 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on Singleton v. Wulff · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hughes v. Rowe · Hormel v. Helvering · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council
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 303 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an over-arching purpose beyond that of arriving at the correct result in an individual case,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the rule would produce 'a plain miscarriage of justice.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]ssues not presented to the district court but raised for the first time on appeal are not properly before the court.”
3 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.