Thomas v. Christopher’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
13 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2010
13 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
Applies 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)
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“negotiated at arm's length and presents no danger of collusion”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the best interests of the class as a whole must remain the paramount consideration even though some class members believe that they will not receive all the individual relief to which they believe they are entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Albright“predominantly equitable claims ... arose from a system of personnel actions that have been uniformly imposed on all class members,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thomas v. Albright
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.