Larry v. White’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 206 · 1991
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Johnston v. City of Houston (1994), Dorsett v. Board of Trustees for State Colleges & Universities (1991)
10 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Washington v. Davis · Watson v. Fort Worth Bank & Trust · Addington v. Texas · Flores v. Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District · American Furniture Co. v. International Accommodations Supply
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unsworn pleadings, memoranda or the like are not, of course, competent summary judgment evidence.”
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.