Myles v. Schlesinger’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably Dumas v. Town of Mount Vernon (1980), Wolfolk v. Rivera (1984)
16 federal appellate · 5 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 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)
Relies on Brown v. General Services Administration · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Michael Meyers, Individually and as Representative of a Class v. Pennypack Woods Home Ownership Association and Marion A. Steinbronn · Coles v. Penny · Eastland v. Tennessee Valley Authority
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The agency shall extend the time limits in this section: (i) When the complainant shows that he was not notified of the time limits and was not otherwise aware of them, or that he was prevented by circumstances beyond his control from submitting the matter within the time limits; or (ii) for other reasons considered sufficient by the agency.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“something like [a] 'reasonable suspicion' " standard, the court held complainants are not "entitled to waivers of the filing requirement merely because they are 'not sure' that they have been discriminated against”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Hodel · Johnson v. Runyon“analyze the specific claims of continuous discrimination to make sure that true continuous discrimination charges have been alleged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.