Mahroom v. Hook’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 1369 · 1977
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Mondy v. Secretary of the Army (1988), Pleming v. Universal-Rundle Corp. (1998)
49 federal appellate · 3 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Brown v. General Services Administration · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Chandler v. Roudebush
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a remedial statute to be liberally construed in favor of the victims of discrimination.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . Title VII, as established by Congress, relies upon laymen, operating without legal assistance, to initiate both administrative complaints and lawsuits. Congress did not intend that such laymen, not schooled in the finer points of legal procedure, be presumed to know exactly what procedural step they must next take in order to perfect their claims . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 717(c) is merely a procedural statute that affects the remedies available to federal employees suffering from employment discrimination. Their right to be free of such discrimination has been assured for years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lee v. Sullivan
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.