Banks v. Lockheed-Georgia Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2004
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen v. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad · 251 F. Supp. 184 - Hall v. Werthan Bag Corporation · Bowe v. Colgate-Palmolive Company
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A class action shall not be dismissed or compromized without the approval of the court, and notice of the proposed dismissal or compromise shall be given to all members of the class in such manner as the court directs.' See, Banks v. Lockheed-Georgia Company, 46 F.R.D. 442 (N.D.Ga. 1968). * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“action was not timely commenced is not well taken because one isolated incident is not being challenged but rather an entire allegedly discriminatory system.”
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.