Justice Murphy's two uses of the term "racism" in this opinion, along with two additional uses in his concurrence in "Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railway Co.", decided the same day, are among the first appearances of the word "racism" in a United States Supreme Court opinion. The first appearance was in Justice Murphy's concurrence in . The term was also used in other cases, such as and . It then disappeared from the court's lexicon for 18 years—it reappeared in . It did not appear in , even though that case did talk about racial discrimination and interracial marriages.