Cisson v. Lockheed-Georgia Company’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
3 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 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 Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Macklin v. Spector Freight Systems Inc. · Miller v. International Paper Co. · Samuel Culpepper, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross v. Reynolds Metals Company, Defendant-Appellee-Cross
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, every past act of discrimination may have some future impact, and certainly the “sins of the fathers” are often perpetuated to the present date. As a result, a broad extension of the continuing discrimination concept would arguably permit a lawsuit to be commenced irrespective of when the alleged discrimination occurred, thereby completely eliminating any period of limitations for Title VII actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Review of the relevant cases indicates that claims are most often deemed ‘continuing’ when they complain of discriminatory hiring practices and are asserted in behalf of a class.””
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.