Sharpe v. Cureton’s Empirical Analysis
319 F.3d 259 · 2003
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Hildebrandt v. Illinois Department of Natural Resources (2003), Davidson v. America Online, Inc. (2003)
30 federal appellate · 6 district · 5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan · Wilson v. Garcia · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Califano v. Yamasaki
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ach discrete discriminatory act starts a new clock for filing charges alleging that act.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Accordingly, Morgan overturns prior Sixth Circuit law addressing serial violations, i.e., plaintiffs are now precluded from establishing a continuing violation exception by proof that the alleged acts of discrimination occurring prior to the limitations period are sufficiently related to those occurring within the limitations period.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[1] those alleging serial violations and [2] those identified with a longstanding and demonstrable policy of discrimination.”
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.