Dothard v. Rawlinson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
826 federal appellate · 176 district · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,850 later decisions (46 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989), Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. (1989)
826 federal appellate · 176 district · 135 state decisions — followed in 29 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody
Cited together with Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine
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 1,850 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a manifest relationship to the employment in question,”
150 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail or refuse to hire ... any individual because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“necessary to safe and efficient job performance.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.