Fair Employment Council of Greater Washington, Inc. v. BMC Marketing Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
28 F.3d 1268 · 1994
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 61 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 175 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Addisu v. Fred Meyer, Inc. (2000), National Treasury Employees Union v. United States (1996)
53 federal appellate · 61 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981A · 42 U.S.C. § 1982 (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 (§ 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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Singleton v. Wulff · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons
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 175 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“apart from [its] efforts at increasing legal pressure on civil-rights violators.” Id. 3 . We note that the burden imposed on a plaintiff at the pleading stage is not onerous. That burden increases, however, as the case proceeds. Whereas”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The diversion of resources to testing might well harm the [plaintiffs] other programs, for money spent on testing is money that is not spent on other things. But this particular harm is self-inflicted; it results not from any actions taken by [the defendant], but rather from the [plaintiffs] own budgetary choices.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the actions taken by [the defendant] have perceptibly impaired the [organization's] programs.”
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.