West v. Technical Aid Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2000
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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person claiming to be aggrieved by an unlawful discriminatory practice shall have a cause of action in any court of appropriate jurisdiction for damages and such other remedies as may be appropriate, unless such person had filed a complaint hereunder [with the State Division for Human Rights] or with any local commission on human rights, ... provided that, where the division has dismissed such complaint on the grounds of admin istrative convenience, such person shall maintain all rights to bring suit as if no complaint had been filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Stated simply, the remedies are mutually exclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the grounds of administrative convenience.”
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.