Elmenayer v. ABF Freight System, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
318 F.3d 130 · 2003
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Petrosino v. Bell Atlantic (2004), Washington IV v. County of Rockland F J (2004)
16 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 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 (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan · Bazemore v. Friday
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough the effect of the employer's rejection continues to be felt by the employee for as long as he remains employed, that continued effect is similar to the continued effect of being denied a promotion or denied a transfer ... [which are] examples of a discrete act.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“be measured from the latest date when [he] was still prevented from observing his religious requirements in the way he had proposed.”
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.