Clark v. Universal Builders Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2020
1 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
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Griffin v. Breckenridge · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Pullman-Standard v. Swint
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there must be a showing of treating, in similar circumstances, a member or members of one race different from the manner in which members of another race are treated. That is, a black prospective buyer of a dwelling demonstrates discriminatory conduct if he proves that an owner utilizes different pricing policies with respect to blacks and whites similarly situated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“discretion within the 'clearly erroneous' standard is slightly broader”
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.