Bowe v. Colgate-Palmolive Co.’s Empirical Analysis
416 F.2d 711 · 1969
Citation profile
222 federal appellate · 46 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 504 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody (1975), Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. (1974)
222 federal appellate · 46 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Fibreboard Paper Products Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Smith v. Evening News Assn. · Humphrey v. Moore · Carey v. Westinghouse Electric 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 504 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, it notifies the charged party of the asserted violation. Secondly, it brings the charged party before the EEOC and permits effectuation of the Act’s primary goal, the securing of voluntary compliance with the law.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should be broadly read and applied so as to effectively terminate the practice and make its victims whole.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A suit for violation of Title VII is necessarily a class action as the evil sought to be ended is discrimination on the basis of a class characteristic, i. e. race, sex, religion or national origin.””
6 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.