Hoffman v. Boeing’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 683 · 1979
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Johnson v. Bergland (1980), Ray v. Freeman (1980)
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Brown v. General Services Administration · Bates v. State Bar · Love v. Pullman Co. · Sanchez v. Standard Brands, 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The timely filing of an administrative complaint is a condition precedent to bringing a discrimination suit under Title VII.... The ... regulations setting up a grievance procedure ... are not to be interpreted in an overly technical manner ..., but a plaintiff will not be allowed deliberately to bypass the opportunity for conciliation and administrative relief provided by them____ Unsuccessful resort to agency procedure is a sine qua non to trial de novo____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“bypass the opportunity for conciliation and administrative relief provided by [the Civil Service regulations].”
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.