Cunningham v. Litton Industries’s Empirical Analysis
413 F.2d 887 · 1969
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably Sanchez v. Standard Brands, Inc. (1970), Abramson v. University of Hawaii (1979)
37 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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 (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on John Martin Oatis, David Johnson, Sr., and R. T. Young v. Crown Zellerbach Corporation · Miller v. International Paper Co. · Choate v. Caterpillar Tractor Co. · Cox v. United States Gypsum Co. · Emmett J. Stebbins v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Emmett J. Stebbins v. Nationwide Mutual Iinsurance Company, Emmett J. Stebbins v. Keystone Insurance Company
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the 30 day period within which suit may be filed in federal district court begins to run when the aggrieved party receives notice of failure to effect voluntary compliance from the EEOC . . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . [T]he Commission shall so notify the person aggrieved and a civil action may, within thirty days thereafter, be brought against the respondent named in the charge . . ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the statute leaves much to be desired in clarity and precision,”
2 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.