Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Detroit Edison Co.’s Empirical Analysis
515 F.2d 301 · 1975
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 26 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 282 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States (1977), Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. Knudson (2002)
125 federal appellate · 26 district · 12 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Sierra Club v. Morton · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Curtis v. Loether
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 282 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. .. Back pay in Title VII cases is considered a form of restitution, not an award of damages. . . . ””
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“passively accept practices which discriminate”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) For all claims arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e, the plaintiff class shall include all minority persons (i. e., blacks, Spanish-Surnameds, Orientals and American Indians) who: (1) Were members, registrants, apprentices or otherwise affiliated with defendant Local 542 at any time between April 30, 1968, and the date of this decree; (2) Applied for membership or affiliation with defendant Local 542, or who would have applied for membership or affiliation with Local 542 but were deterred from doing so because of Local 542's discriminatory practices, at any time between April 30, 1968, and the date of this decree; and (3) Apply for membership or affiliation with defendant Local 542 from the date of this decree until this Court dismisses jurisdiction over this action. (b) For all claims arising under the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1871, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981 and 1985(3), and under 29 U.S.C. § 158 , the plaintiff class shall include all minority persons who: (1) Were members, registrants, apprentices or otherwise affiliated with defendant Local 542 at any time between November 8, 1965, and the date of this decree; (2) Applied for membership or affiliation with defendant Local 542, or who would have applied for membership or affiliation with Local 542 but were deterred from doing so because of Local 542's discriminatory practices, at any time between November 8, 1965, and the date of this decree; and (3) Apply for membership o”
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.