Johnnie A. REED, Appellant, v. ARLINGTON HOTEL COMPANY, INC., Appellee’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.2d 721 · 1973
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1998 · most notably Hensley v. Eckerhart (1983), Wetzel v. Liberty Mutual Insurance (1975)
82 federal appellate · 9 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Louisiana v. United States · Eason v. Dandridge · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Seaboard Shipping Corp. v. Moran Inland Waterways Corp. · Parham v. Southwestern Bell Telephone 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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . .if this kind of an individual [a discharged employee, not seeking reinstatement] would be prevented from bringing class actions as the rules permit, there would be a windfall for the employer, and when any. such matter was coming up, all they would have to do is discharge the employee ...” (p. 723).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(S)tatistics which show segregated departments and job classifications establish a violation of Title VII.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Such unstandardized and subjective procedures lend themselves to arbitrary and discriminatory hiring.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.