Gregory v. Litton Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
472 F.2d 631 · 1972
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 11 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Brown v. Trustees of Boston University (1989), Carter v. District of Columbia (1986)
45 federal appellate · 11 district · 10 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 (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Wiener v. California · Jenkins v. United Gas Corp. · Sprogis v. United Air Lines, Inc.
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the provisions of Title VII authorizing the court to waive costs and fees and to grant attorney’s fees, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-5(e), 2000e-5(k), indicate that Congress intended to ease the way of the Title VII plaintiff, the same provisions also indicate that when Congress intended to grant special privileges or to waive the usual procedural rules it knew how to say so. (Gregory v. Litton Systems, Inc., 472 F.2d 631, 633 (9th Cir. 1972).)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]njunctive relief [may] be necessary to give a plaintiff or a group of plaintiffs the relief to which they are entitled. Such relief, of course, may incidentally benefit many persons not 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.