Frances E. Porcher, Etc. v. Mary E. Brown, Etc.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
87 federal appellate · 15 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 246 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2006 · most notably Lawrence D. Caldwell v. Harold G. Miller, Warden (1986), Meriwether v. Faulkner (1987)
87 federal appellate · 15 district · 41 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 26 U.S.C. § 3301 (Federal Unemployment Tax Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 3304 (Federal Unemployment Tax Act) · 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1401 (Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972) · 42 U.S.C. § 6000 (Developmental Disabilities Act of 1984)
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Maine v. Thiboutot · Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn. · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Great Northern Life Ins Co v. Read
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 246 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is by no means clear, however, that § 3304(a)(12) does not simply provide that pregnancy must be treated like all other disabilitiesthat pregnancy simply cannot be singled out for unfavorable treatment. The Department of Labor adheres to such an interpretation and thus disagrees with the Fourth Circuit's interpretation of § 3304(a)(12).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“no person shall be denied compensation under [a state unemployment compensation] law solely on the basis of pregnancy or termination of pregnancy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“left voluntarily without good cause his most recent work,”
1 later decision 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.