Averitt v. Cloon’s Empirical Analysis
796 F.2d 195 · 1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2011
6 federal appellate · 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Bishop v. Wood · Ingraham v. Wright · United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America, Local 610 v. Scott
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that the class of individuals protected by the “equal protection of the law” language of the statute are those so-called “discrete and insular” minorities that receive special protection under the Equal Protection Clause because of inherent personal characteristics. The persons protected under the “equal privileges and immunities” language of the statute are those individuals who join together as a class for the purpose of asserting certain fundamental rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“are created and their dimensions are defined by existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a legitimate claim of entitlement to the claimed ... interest.”
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.