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458 F. Supp. 970 - MacRae v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
April 1995
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Hazelwood School District v. United States · M. Morrin & Son Co. v. Burgess Construction Co.

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “All current black employees of the Composing Division of the Government Printing Office in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area who have applied for and have been, subsequent to March 24,1972, or are being denied promotions, training opportunities, or transfers because of defendant’s allegedly discriminatory practices and policies.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “may be probative of the claim now before the Court”
    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.