Wimberly v. Labor and Industrial Relations Comm'n of Mo.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 12 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2014 · most notably Brennan v. Stewart (1988), Sandison v. Michigan High School Athletic Ass'n (1995)
30 federal appellate · 12 district · 31 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 (§ 523 of the County Civil Service Commission Act) · 26 U.S.C. § 3304 (§ 104 of the County Civil Service Commission Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 38 U.S.C. § 2021
Relies on Southeastern Community College v. Davis · Chas Steward Mach Co v. Davis · School Board of Nassau County, Florida, Et Al. v. Arline · St. Martin Evangelical Lutheran Church v. South Dakota · Monroe v. Standard Oil 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot readily be characterized as a decision made,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'solely on the basis of pregnancy.' " Id. First, the Court examined Sec. 3304(a)(12)'s text: 25 The focus of this language is on the basis for the State's decision, not the claimant's reason for leaving her job. Thus, a State could not decide to deny benefits to pregnant women while at the same time allowing benefits to persons who are in other respects similarly situated: the "sole basis”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'no person shall be denied [unemployment] compensation under such State law solely on the basis of pregnancy or termination of pregnancy.'”
2 later decisions 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.