Cherella v. Phoenix Technologies Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Charland v. Muzi Motors, Inc. (1994), Tardanico v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. (1996)
6 federal appellate · 12 district · 29 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)
Relies on Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Kourouvacilis v. General Motors Corp. · Pederson v. Time, Inc. · Jackson v. Action for Boston Community Development, Inc. · 19 Mass. App. Ct. 511 - Melley v. Gillette Corp.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“encourages or cajoles the potential plaintiff into inaction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“did not establish contractual rights which would support an action for breach of contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.