Olson v. Philco-Ford’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 474 · 1976
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Wheelock College v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (1976), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (1983)
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Triangle Improvement Council v. Ritchie · Rich v. Martin Marietta Corp. · Taylor v. Safeway Stores, Inc.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) that [the plaintiff] belongs to a . minority; (ii) that he applied and was qualified for a job for which the employer was seeking applicants; (iii) that, despite his qualifications, he was rejected; and (iv) that, after his rejection, the position remained open and the employer continued to seek applicants from persons of plaintiff’s qualifications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Perham v. Ladd
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.