Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Safeway Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 795 · 1979
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably Local Number 93, International Ass'n of Firefighters v. City of Cleveland (1986), Williams v. Vukovich (1983)
43 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 (§ 703 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 International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · Ford Motor Co v. Huffman International Union United Automobile Aircraft and Agricultural Implementworkers of America Ci · United States v. Swift & Co.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no evidence indicating that the facts-e.g., the nature and makeup of Safeway employees and operations-against which the decree and the interpreting order were framed have substantially changed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A Consent Decree would be worthless if it could be attacked on the ground that had the Court made a particular determination, such relief would then not be statutorily available.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'hardship so extreme and unexpected' as to make the decree oppressive.”
2 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.