Banks v. Lockheed-Georgia Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Federal Trade Commission v. TRW, Inc. (1980), United States v. Noall (1978)
3 federal appellate · 7 district · 9 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 Southern Railway Company v. Carl Talmadge Lanham · Bredice v. Doctors Hospital, Inc. · Richards v. Maine Central Railroad · Richards v. Maine Central Railroad
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reports have been made in an attempt to affirmatively strengthen the Company’s policy of compliance with Title VII and Executive Order 11246. The Court looks on this as an important issue of public policy and feels it would be contrary to that policy to discourage frank self-criticism and evaluation in the development of affirmative action programs of this kind.”
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.