Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Associated Dry Goods Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 48 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 316 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine (1981), University of Pennsylvania v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1990)
109 federal appellate · 48 district · 9 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedEqual Employment Opportunity Commission v. Joseph Horne Co. (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 50 (§ 10 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 18 U.S.C. § 1905 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 713 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 709 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 710 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 552 (Freedom of Information Act)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Occidental Life Insurance Company of California v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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 316 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither a charge, nor information obtained during the investigation of a charge of employment discrimination under the ADA or Title VII, nor information obtained from records required to be kept or reports required to be filed pursuant to the ADA or Title VII, shall be made matters of public information by the Commission prior to the institution of any proceeding under the ADA or Title VII involving such charge or information. This provision does not apply to such earlier disclosures to charging parties, or their attorneys, respondents, to their attorneys, or witnesses where disclosure is deemed necessary for securing appropriate relief ... (emphasis added).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“conference, conciliation, and persuasion”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacH Mining, LLC v. Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n · 32 Fair empl.prac.cas. 40, 32 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 33,689 J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc. v. Lowell W. Perry, Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, G. Duke Beasley, Acting Regional Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Alfonso McGhee Acting 707 Team Captain, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission“(b) Section 706(b) of title VII provides that the Commission shall not make public charges which have been filed. It also provides that (subsequent to the filing of a charge, an investigation, and a finding that there is reasonable cause to believe that the charge is true) nothing said or done during and as a part of the Commission’s endeavors to eliminate any alleged unlawful employment practice by informal methods of conference, conciliation, and persuasion may be made public by the Commission without the written consent of the parties concerned; nor may it be used as evidence in a subsequent proceeding. Any officer or employee of the Commission who shall make public in any manner whatever any information in violation of section 706(b) shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than 1 year. (c) Section 709 of title VII authorizes the Commission to conduct investigations of charges filed under § 706, engage in cooperative efforts with State and local agencies charged with the administration of State or local fair employment practices laws, and issue regulations concerning reports and record-keeping. Section (e) of section 709 provides that it shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of the Commission to make public in any manner whatever any information obtained by the Commission pursuant to its authority under section 709 prior to the institution of any proceeding under the act involvin”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.