Johnnie I. Brown v. International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Scanio v. United States (1994), Hameed
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Castaneda v. Partida · Hazelwood School District 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he apprentice selection process must be viewed as a whole to discover whether there is a disparate racial impact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. 24 Fair empl.prac.cas. 352, 24 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 31,392 Walee Abdul Hameed Lonnie Vanderson George Coe Willie M. Nichols Johnnie J. Brown Hiawatha Davis Willie West v. International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, Local Union No. 396 and Ironworkers Joint Apprenticeship Committee of St. Louis, Missouri, National Iron Workers and Employer Training Program, Walee Abdul Hameed Lonnie Vanderson George Coe Willie M. Nichols Johnnie J. Brown Hiawatha Davis Willie West v. International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, Local Union No. 396, Ironworkers Joint Apprenticeship Committee of St. Louis, Missouri, National Iron Workers and Employer Training Program · Hameed“The ultimate issue in both the Government’s case and the instant case is whether defendants have engaged in racially discriminatory employment practices. Defendants had the same interest in disproving that claim in the prior suit as in the present one. We conclude that there is substantial identity of issues in the two suits. [Id. at 569.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As a general rule, depositions taken in a prior action are admissible in a subsequent action if there is substantial identity of issues and parties in the two actions.”
1 later decision 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.