Johnson v. Bergland’s Empirical Analysis
614 F.2d 415 · 1980
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Vinieratos v. United States, Department of the Air Force ex rel. Aldridge (1991), Wilson v. Peña (1996)
28 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · De Medina v. Reinhardt · Ettinger v. Johnson · Hoffman v. Boeing
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Otherwise, the complainant might be dilatory at the administrative level, knowing that he can get into federal court anyway.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“his administrative complaint was vacated because he failed to comply with the valid administrative requirement that he make his generalized complaints more specific.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“described general situations that could have occurred at any time; ... [and] did not set out any specific incidents or dates of discrimination”
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.