Sanders v. Dorris’s Empirical Analysis
873 F.2d 938 · 1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2007
7 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 3604 (§ 804 of the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII, Civil Rights Act of 1968))
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Bibby v. United States · Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman · Daniel v. Security Pacific National Bank · Marr v. Rife
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.
“In addition, we instruct the court to provide more explicit factual findings explaining which evidence it accepts and which evidence it specifically rejects.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“make a final evidentiary ruling concerning the admissibility of [witness] Wallace's testimony,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“findings should be explicit so as to give the appellate court a clear understanding of the basis of the trial court's decision, and to enable it to determine the grounds on which the trial court reached its decision.”
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.