Dawson v. Pastrick’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2002
4 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 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 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)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Monroe v. Pape · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should it appear in the future . . . that the relief outlined above is inadequate, this Court shall not hesitate in imposing stronger measures, including preferential numerical relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dawson v. Pastrick“a racial disparity between the racial composition of the fire department of East Chicago and the racial composition of the city itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dawson v. Pastrick
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.