Greenhouse v. Greco’s Empirical Analysis
617 F.2d 408 · 1980
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2015
9 federal appellate · 1 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 Lombard v. Marcera · Marcera v. Chinlund · Boggs v. Alto Trailer Sales, Inc. · Mudd v. Busse · Paxman v. Campbell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The weight wielded by the bishop consists of moral persuasion backed by possible religious sanctions. He simply does not have the legal power traditionally found in civil government, nor does he have the legal standing to carry out any integration decrees which may eventually be issued by a federal court. It is apparent that only the individual church corporations may respond in this regard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a locally administered state statute or similar administrative policies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not an appropriate basis for the certification of a defendant class”
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.