528 F. Supp. 686 - Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2002
4 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Delaware State College v. Ricks · Brown v. General Services Administration · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Love v. Pullman Co. · Bronze Shields, Inc. v. New Jersey Department of Civil Service
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To require that federal Title VII plaintiffs not only bring their claims to the attention of the agency through an EEO Counselor within thirty days, but also meet a subsequent fifteen-day deadline as a prerequisite to a civil action on the merits of the claim would be to create, in effect, a “double” statute of limitations. While the thirty-day requirement serves the conventional purpose of a limitations provision, in that it requires the commencement of an action within a specified period of time and promotes repose, the fifteen-day requirement serves no interest other than the internal agency interest in speedily processing discrimination claims. To require strict compliance with the fifteen-day requirement would be to impose a “technicality” “particularly inappropriate in a statutory scheme in which laymen, unassisted by trained lawyers, initiate the process.””
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.