Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Packard Electric Division, General Motors Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 315 · 1978
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Earley v. Champion International Corp. (1990), Trevino v. Celanese Corp. (1983)
25 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · United States v. Powell · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Wingo v. Wedding · United States v. Bisceglia
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the context of an investigation of an individual complaint, it might well be most natural to focus on that employing unit or work unit from which came the decision of which the individual complainant complains; within such a unit the EEOC might well need a wide spectrum of statistical data in order to illuminate the general policies bearing on the complainant's situation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“statistical information may be used to establish that the treatment of a particular employee follows a general pattern of employer discrimination,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it does not help us in determining precisely what statistical and comparative data are to be deemed `relevant'”
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.