Carrion v. Yeshiva University’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 722 · 1976
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2017 · most notably Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (1978), Eastway Construction Corp. v. City of New York (1985)
73 federal appellate · 12 district · 6 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Fahey v. Mallonee
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(P)rivate parties who commence such litigation are 'private attorneys general' vindicating a policy to which Congress gave the highest priority . . .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o greater or lesser protection against discriminatory practices is provided”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unreasonable, frivolous, meritless or vexatious.”
5 later decisions 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.