Shipes v. Trinity Industries’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 347 · 1994
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · Crawford Fitting Company v. Jt Gibbons Inc Champion International Corporation · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Court [in Landgraf ] indicated that when a procedural matter has been properly decided under the old rule, and a new procedural rule is subsequently enacted while the ultimate resolution of the case is still pending, no reversal is required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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