Racially discriminatory application of a racially neutral statute violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Decided May 10, 1886. Opinion of the Court: Stanley Matthews → go there Applied: the Fourteenth Amendment → go there Topic: Discrimination based on race and ethnicity. Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that a prima facie race-neutral law administered in a prejudicial manner infringed upon the right to equal protection guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Wiki link