Ozzie Hackett v. Mcguire Brothers, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 18 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood (1979), Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Insurance (1972)
52 federal appellate · 18 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
Relies on Flast v. Cohen · Allied Chemical & Alkali Workers v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Bowe v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. · Sylvester TIPLER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. E. I. duPONT deNEMOURS AND CO., Inc., Defendant-Appellant
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use in 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5 of the language 'a person claiming to be aggrieved' shows a congressional intention to define standing as broadly as is permitted by Article III of the Constitution.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * In Fekete v. United States Steel Corp., 424 F.2d 331 (3rd Cir. 1970) , this court rejected the contention that a claimant lost his right to proceed under Title YII by electing to pursue simultaneously a contractual remedy which afforded partial relief. * * * Hackett is a Negro and purports to represent potential and actual Negro employees in eliminating discrimination by McGuire and by Local 187. The Young case recognizes his right to bring such a suit under § 1981. The national public policy reflected both in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and in § 1981 may not be frustrated by the development of overly technical judicial doctrines of standing or election of remedies. If the plaintiff is sufficiently aggrieved so that he claims enough injury in fact to present a genuine case or controversy in the Article III sense, then he should have standing to sue in his own right and as a class representative.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * Hackett says that he was discriminated against in seniority and in vacation schedules, and was discharged, because of his race. If this is so he has been aggrieved. Hackett says the Union discriminated against him because of his race. If this is so he has been aggrieved. 6”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.