Henderson v. Eastern Freight Ways, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 258 · 1972
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Perkins v. Silverstein (1991), Spirides v. Reinhardt (1979)
18 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Sanchez v. Standard Brands, Inc. · Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc. v. Walker · Miller v. International Paper Co. · Samuel Culpepper, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross v. Reynolds Metals Company, Defendant-Appellee-Cross · Choate v. Caterpillar Tractor 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the outset, it should be noted that the Act on which the employee predicates his action [Title VII] is remedial in character and should be generously construed to achieve its purposes. Moreover it is a general policy of law to find a way in which to prevent loss of valuable rights, not because something was done too late but rather because it was done too soon.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is remedial in character and should be generously construed to achieve its purposes.”
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.