Grayson v. Wickes Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 1194 · 1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2009 · most notably Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. Knudson (2002), Hubbard v. Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency (1992)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Relies on Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Curtis v. Loether · Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur · Robinson v. Lorillard Corp. · Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. v. Securities & Exchange Commission
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an award of back pay is an integral part of the equitable remedy of reinstatement”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the court finds that the respondent has intentionally engaged in or is intentionally engaging in an unlawful employment practice charged in the complaint, the court may enjoin the respondent from engaging in such unlawful employment practice, and order such affirmative action as may be appropriate, which may include, but is not limited to, reinstatement or hiring of employees, with or without back pay (payable by the employer, employment agency, or labor organization, as the case may be, responsible for the unlawful employment practice), or any other equitable relief as the court deems appropriate..”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Seventh Amendment [right to civil jury trial] does apply to actions enforcing statutory rights, and requires a jury trial upon demand, if the statute creates legal rights and remedies, enforceable in an action for damages in the ordinary courts of law.”
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.