348 F. Supp. 15 - Davis v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1991
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Castro v. Beecher · Buckner v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company · 334 F. Supp. 930 - Castro v. Beecher · 330 F. Supp. 228 - Spurlock v. United Airlines, Inc.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonably and directly related to the requirements of the police recruit training program.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Test is directly related to a determination of whether the applicant possesses sufficient skills requisite to the demands of the curriculum a recruit must master at the police academy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) The number of black police officers, while substantial, is not proportionate to the population mix of the city. (b) A higher percentage of blacks fail the Test than whites. (c) The Test has not been validated to establish its reliability for measuring subsequent job performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Washington v. Davis
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.