Long v. Sapp’s Empirical Analysis
502 F.2d 34 · 1974
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently August 1997 · most notably Phillips v. Joint Legislative Committee on Performance & Expenditure Review (1981), Crawford v. Western Electric Co. (1980)
59 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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
Relies on Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · De Leon v. United States · Bowe v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. · Alabama v. United States
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a person aggrieved, [the named plaintiff] can represent other victims of the same policies, whether or not all have experienced discrimination in the same way.” Long v. Sapp, 502 F.2d 34, 43 (5th Cir. 1974).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'nexus with the class and its interests and claims which is embraced in the various requirements of 23(a),'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all black persons who have applied for employment with the defendant or who would have applied for employment had the defendants not practiced racial discrimination in employment and recruiting.”
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.