Beasley v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1995
2 federal appellate · 8 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. § 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 (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 405 (§ 205 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Weinberger v. Salfi · Brown v. General Services Administration · Ristaino v. Ross · Wetzel v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Rich v. Martin Marietta 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) Within thirty days of receipt of notice of final action taken by a department, agency, or unit referred to in subsection (a) of this section, or by the Civil Service Commission upon an appeal from a decision or order of such department, agency, or unit on a complaint of discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin, brought pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, Executive Order 11478 or any succeeding Executive orders, or after one hundred and eighty days from the filing of the initial charge with the department, agency, or unit or with the Civil Service Commission on appeal from a decision or order of such department, agency, or unit until such time as final action may be taken by a department, agency, or unit, an employee or applicant for employment, if aggrieved by the final disposition of his complaint, or by the failure to take final action on his complaint, may file a civil action as provided in section 2000e-5 of this title, in which civil action the head of the department, agency, or unit, as appropriate, shall be the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plaintiff’s motion [for class certification], in effect, asks this court to adopt a standard for class certification which would permit an “across the board” attack on defendants’ alleged unequal employment practices. Such a standard has been generally adopted in Title VII cases in view of the broad remedial purposes of Title VII. Although it has not yet directly addressed this issue this circuit has recognized in other contexts the discretion of the trial court in these ma.tters and acknowledged that courts in Title VII cases permit plaintiffs to represent classes as broad as the one sought here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beasley v. Griffin“1) black employees of the United States Customs Service, Region I, employed there as of January 13, 1975 or since; 2) black applicants for employment with the United States Customs Service, Region I, who have applied since January 17, 1972; and 3) future black applicants for employment by the United States Customs Service, Region I.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beasley v. Griffin
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.