Love v. Pullman Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
737 federal appellate · 320 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,989 later decisions (47 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. (1983), Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. (1982)
737 federal appellate · 320 district · 84 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
reviewedLove v. Pullman Co. (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. · Love v. Pullman Co.
Cited together with McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Mohasco Corp. v. Silver · Oscar Mayer & Co. v. Evans · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co.
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 1,989 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Such technicalities are particularly inappropriate in a statutory scheme in which laymen, unassisted by trained lawyers, initiate the process.”
67 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“hold a complaint in 'suspended animation,' automatically filing it upon termination of the state proceedings.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no charge may be filed ... by the person aggrieved before the expiration of sixty days after proceedings have been commenced under the state or local law, unless such proceedings have been earlier terminated....”
18 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.