Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Local 14, International Union of Operating Engineers’s Empirical Analysis
553 F.2d 251 · 1977
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Guardians Association of New York City Police Department Inc v. Civil Service Commission of City of New York (1980), Taylor v. Teletype Corp. (1981)
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Bates v. State Bar · Barrett v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a significant number of union members come from outside the union’s geographic jurisdiction, the court must widen its sights; the appropriate reference area then should be that region from which the union draws its members.”
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.