Burke v. Friedman’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.2d 867 · 1977
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Wheeler v. Hurdman (1987), Serapion v. Martinez (1997)
32 federal appellate · 4 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 (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Culbertson · Commissioner v. Tower · Walling v. US · McClure v. Salvation Army · Morningstar 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has fifteen or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding year.....” 42 U.S.C. § 2000e. . In recognizing this rule, the Supreme Court also recognized the”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e do not see how partners can be regarded as employees rather than as employers who own and manage the operation of the business.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“intended to have its common dictionary meaning, except as expressly qualified by the Act.”
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.