Reyes v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
580 F.2d 393 · 1978
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2000
11 federal appellate · 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Olson v. Philco-Ford · Hurley v. United States · Otis HIGGINS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. GATES RUBBER COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“our review is limited to a determination of whether the trial judge's factual findings of no discrimination are 'clearly erroneous' under Rule 52(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.”
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.