Womack v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
504 F.2d 267 · 1974
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably Ralph M. Hackley v. Richard L. Roudebush, Administrator of Veterans Affairs (1975), Barnes v. Costle (1977)
72 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 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 360 F. Supp. 1247 - Hackley v. Johnson · Koger v. Ball · 370 F. Supp. 180 - Henderson v. Defense Contract Administration Services Region · Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division v. Federal Power Commission
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 717(c) is merely a procedural statute that affects the remedies available to federal employees suffering from employment discrimination. Their right to be free of such discrimination has been assured for years. We hold that this remedial statute applies retroactively to proceedings already pending at the time of its effective date, March 24, 1972.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lee v. Sullivan · Mahroom v. Hook““The right has been assured by a series of Executive Orders dating back at least to 1948. See E.O. 9980, 13 Fed.Reg. 4311 (1948);”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Turner
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.