Collins v. United Air Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
514 F.2d 594 · 1975
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party. Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party (1977), Michael Meyers, Individually and as Representative of a Class v. Pennypack Woods Home Ownership Association and Marion A. Steinbronn (1977)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 (§ 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 In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Lehigh Valley Co v. Board of Public Utility Com'rs · Jeannette M. GATES, Appellee, v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, a Corporation, Appellant · Cunningham v. Litton Industries
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“seeks to redress the original termination”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(w)e express no opinion on the question whether a charge filed within 90 days of United's discontinuance of the 'no marriage' policy would have satisfied the (filing) requirement, I. e., whether the continued existence of that policy may have constituted a continuing violation as to Collins”
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.