Jordan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
522 F.2d 1128 · 1975
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Vinieratos v. United States, Department of the Air Force ex rel. Aldridge (1991), Wilson v. Peña (1996)
34 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · United States v. Sherwood · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · McKart v. United States · Land US v. Dollar
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]imple fairness to those who are engaged in the tasks of administration, and to litigants, requires as a general rule that courts should not topple over administrative decisions unless the administrative body not only erred but has erred against objection made at the time appropriate under its practice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the head of the department, agency, or unit, as appropriate, shall be the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Implicit in the . . . attempted control of . . . discrimination by administrative and judicial machinery is a degree of cooperation from the complaining party. A full development of the pertinent facts cannot be had without the disclosure by the aggrieved employee of the facts serving as a basis for his complaint.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.