Percy v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Maine Human Rights Commission ex rel. Gordon v. Canadian Pacific Ltd. (1983), Ricci v. Applebee's Northeast, Inc. (2003)
11 district · 13 state decisions
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 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Dothard v. Rawlinson · Dothard v. Rawlinson Hazelwood School District · Canron, Inc. v. Plasser American Corp. · Thor C. LAUGESEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the ANACONDA COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee · Wing v. Morse
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The need to accommodate the interests of the employee and the institution is grounded in the weighty anti-discrimination considerations at issue, embodied in the equal employment laws of the Maine Human Rights Act. So considerable is the importance of equal employment opportunity under the Maine statute that the arrangement of job assignments and even the structure of the facility itself are not immune from reasonable alterations that are necessary to effect a harmonization of employment practices with that opportunity. The importance of the anti-discrimination principle is further revealed by the procedural framework which casts upon the employer the burden of demonstrating that such accommodation would have been unfeasible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Percy v. Allen“discriminatory conduct is rooted in the privacy interests of those [e.g., prison inmates] with whom the complainant has contact .... This element is accommodation: the employer must demonstrate that it could not reasonably rearrange job responsibilities or engage in alternative practices so as to minimize the clash between the privacy interests of the inmates and the fundamental principle barring discrimination in employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Therefore, at the initial, liability phase in which the legality of the defendants’ conduct is assessed, plenary consideration must be given to the issue of accommodation, regardless of the nature of the requested relief.”
1 later decision 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.