44 F. Supp. 2d 593 - Hicks v. IBM’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Whidbee v. Garzarelli Food Specialties, Inc. (2000), 77 F. Supp. 2d 376 - Lewis v. Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (1999)
2 federal appellate · 1 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)
Relies on Patterson v. McLean Credit Union · Jett v. Dallas Independent School District · Runyon v. McCrary · Tomka v. Seiler Corp. · Schwapp v. Town of Avon
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he failure of a complaint to cite a statute (or in this case a subsection of the statute) in no way affects the merits of the claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chau v. Donovan“[I]t does not matter that plaintiff did not use words such as aid, abet, or incite, in the complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chau v. Donovan“a primary violation committed by another employee or the business itself,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chau v. Donovan
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.