Cornwell v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
23 F.3d 694 · 1994
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 27 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 343 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Tomka v. Seiler Corp. (1995), Patterson v. County of Oneida (2004)
44 federal appellate · 27 district · 12 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Torres v. Oakland Scavenger Co. · Raphan v. United States
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 343 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where specific and related instances of discrimination are permitted by the employer to continue unremedied for so long as to amount to a discriminatory policy or practice.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Plaintiffs'] failure to [name the defendants] in the original complaint... must be considered a matter of choice, not mistake.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a claim generally accrues once the plaintiff knows or has reason to know of the injury which is the basis of his action.”
3 later decisions 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.