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Davis v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

55
cited by 55 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
November 1979
most recently cited

21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 3304

Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Bolling v. Sharpe · Steffel v. Thompson · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez

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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “from validation studies of tests with training criteria, one must generalize with great caution about the validity of those tests for (job) proficiency.... (T) he abilities and traits which are important for success in training are not very similar to those which determine success in the performance of the actual job.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Davis v. Washington
  2. “14 Once it is shown that a particular selection procedure has an exclusionary effect on minority applicants, there is a heavy burden on the employer to show that discriminatory procedure”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Davis v. Washington
  3. “would more accurately state the evidence presented to the court, for convenience we will refer to this category as”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Davis v. Washington

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.