Zapata v. IBP, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Allison v. Citgo Petroleum Corp. (1998), Zachery v. Texaco Exploration & Production, Inc. (1999)
1 federal appellate · 17 district · 3 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Rivers v. Roadway Express, Inc. · CPC International Inc. v. Dimmitt Agri Industries, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“devolve into a series of individual trials on issues peculiar to each plaintiff”
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.