Wright v. Methodist Youth Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Mogilefsky v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES CTY. (1993), 74 Fair empl.prac.cas. (Bna) 625, 71 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 44,851 J. Doe and H. Doe, by Their Parents and Next Friends, David and Mary Doe v. City of Belleville, Illinois (1997)
5 federal appellate · 8 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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 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 Cannon v. University of Chicago · Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Novotny · Bundy v. Jackson · Dombrowski v. Dowling
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is no answer to say that a similar condition could be imposed on a male subordinate by a heterosexual female superior, or by a subordinate of either gender by a homosexual superior of the same gender. In each instance, the legal problem would be identical to that confronting us now — the exaction of a condition which, but for his or her sex, the employee would not have faced. [Id. at 310.]”
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.