Saunders v. General Services Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Spann v. Colonial Village, Inc. (1990), Jesse Brown, Rev., On Behalf Of Himself And All Members Of The Uptown Coalition For Tobacco Control And Health v. Philip Morris Inc. (2001)
17 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 3601 (§ 801 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. § 3612 (§ 812 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Warth v. Seldin · Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the Fair Housing Act, a corporation and its officers 'are responsible for the acts of a subordinate employee ... even though these acts were neither directed nor authorized....' Courts have followed this rule even where 'it seems harsh to punish innocent and well-intentioned employers' because the statutory duty not to discriminate is non-delegable”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, the Court finds that the natural interpretation of the Lifestyle brochure is to indicate that [defendant’s] apartment complexes are for white, and not black, tenants, thus discouraging blacks from seeking housing there.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling”
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.