Wright v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.3d 214 · 1993
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Ilona of Hungary, Inc. (1996), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. United Parcel Service (1996)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 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)
Relies on Ansonia Board of Education v. Philbrook · Beasley v. Health Care Service Corp. · Ryan v. United States Department of Justice
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are not without sympathy for employees trapped between their jobs and deeply held religious beliefs. Religious faith is ordinarily consistent with most employment obligations. When the two conflict, Congress has ordered that employers must try to accommodate their employees’ religious practices. Perhaps there were other steps that could have been taken here that would have allowed [the employee] to continue working at [his job] without infringing his religious convictions. We believe, however, that the [employer] has done all that Title VII requires and, therefore, that it is entitled to summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A reasonable accommodation of an employee's religion is one that 'eliminates the conflict between employment requirements and religious practices.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Title VII . . . requires only reasonable accommodation, not satisfaction of an employee's every desire.”
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.