Squires v. Bonser’s Empirical Analysis
54 F.3d 168 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Leatch Booker, Iii v. Taylor Milk Company, Inc. (1995), Montone v. City of Jersey City (2013)
13 federal appellate · 3 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 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · Curtis v. Loether
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the denial of seniority relief to victims of illegal racial discrimination in hiring is permissible 'only for reasons which, if applied generally, would not frustrate the central statutory purposes of eradicating discrimination throughout the economy and making persons whole for injuries suffered through past discrimination.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he fact that reinstatement might have disturbing consequences, revive old antagonisms, or breed difficult working conditions usually is not enough to outweigh the important first amendment policies that reinstatement serves [absent] probable adverse consequences[that] weigh so heavily that they counsel the court against imposing this preferred remedy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Barachkov v. Lucido · In Re: Continental Airlines, Debtor. Air Line Pilots Association v. Continental Airlines, Lpp Effective Date Committee, Honorable John Stonitsch, Trustee. Lpp No. 96-7028 . In Re: Continental Airlines, Debtor. Air Line Pilots Association v. Continental Airlines, LLP Effective Date Committee, Honorable John Stonitsch, Trustee. Continental Airlines, Inc., No. 96-7038“[W]hile the availability of money damages may have significance in the district court's consideration of remedies, reinstatement is the preferred remedy in the absence of special circumstances militating against it.”
2 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.