Silver v. KCA, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
586 F.2d 138 · 1978
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 11 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Little v. United Technologies (1997), Laughlin v. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (1998)
50 federal appellate · 11 district · 6 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Rogers v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hochstadt v. Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology · Rush Pettway and Peter J. Wrenn v. American Cast Iron Pipe Company
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he opposition must be directed at an unlawful employment practice of an employer, not an act of discrimination by a private individual.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable in view of the employer's interest in maintaining a harmonious and efficient operation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“opposed ... an unlawful employment practice.”
3 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.