Taylor v. Safeway Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
524 F.2d 263 · 1975
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 29 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 214 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club (1983), Larry Nadeau v. Raymond A. Helgemoe, Warden, New Hampshire State Prison (1978)
85 federal appellate · 29 district · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Triangle Improvement Council v. Ritchie
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 214 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen an employee opts to attend school, curtailing present earning capacity in order to reap greater future earnings, a back pay award for the period while attending school also would be like receiving a double benefit.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“ready, willing, and available for employment”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Prerequisites to a Class Action. One or more members of a class may sue or be sued as representative parties on behalf of all only if (1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable, (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interest of the class. (b) Class Actions Maintainable. An action may be maintained as a class action if the prerequisites of subdivision (a) are satisfied, and in addition: (2) the party opposing the class has acted or refused to act on grounds generally applicable to the class, thereby making appropriate final injunctive relief or corresponding declaratory relief with respect to the class as a whole.”
2 later decisions 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.