Ricks v. Delaware State College’s Empirical Analysis
605 F.2d 710 · 1979
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Delaware State College v. Ricks (1980), Aronsen v. Crown Zellerbach (1981)
23 federal appellate · 4 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Love v. Pullman Co. · Oscar Mayer & Co. v. Evans · International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers v. Robbins & Myers, Inc. · Easton v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bright line guide both for the courts and for the victims of discrimination.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(g)iven the identical wording of Title VII's and the ADEA's 180-day requirements, and the common humanitarian and remedial purpose of the two statutes, we perceive no reason to interpret the two requirements differently in this regard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a terminated employee who is still working should not be required to consult a lawyer or file charges of discrimination against his employer so long as he is still working, even though he has been told of the employer's present intention to terminate him in the future.”
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.