Fowler v. Blue Bell, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 1276 · 1979
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018 · most notably National Association of Government Employees v. City Public Service Board of San Antonio Texas, Kamberos v. GTE Automatic Electric, Inc. (1981)
27 federal appellate ·
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)
Relies on Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Occidental Life Insurance Company of California v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Bernard v. Gulf Oil Co. · Akers v. State Marine Lines, Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]lthough the doctrine of laches may be available in some cases to bar the EEOC from bringing suit, this bar arises only if the EEOC has delayed unreasonably after it has completed conciliation.”
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.