Smith v. Casellas’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.3d 33 · 1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Jordan v. Summers (2000), 657 F. Supp. 2d 180 - Peavey v. Holder (2009)
2 federal appellate · 21 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
Relies on Francis-Sobel v. University of Maine · McCottrell v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Ward v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Scheerer v. Rose State College · Jay Lee GIBSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress has not authorized, either expressly or impliedly, a cause of action against the EEOC for the EEOC's alleged negligence or other malfeasance in processing an employment discrimination charge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress intended the private right of action provided for in section 706(f)(1) of the Act ( 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(f)(1) )-under which an aggrieved employee may bring a Title VII action directly against his or her employer-to serve as the remedy for any improper handling of a discrimination charge by the EEOC.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coulibaly v. Pompeo“[I]mplying a cause of action against the EEOC contradicts this policy of individual enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws and could dissipate the limited resources of the [EEOC] in fruitless litigation with charging parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coulibaly v. Pompeo
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.