Thornton v. Coffey’s Empirical Analysis
618 F.2d 686 · 1980
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Burrus v. United Telephone Co. of Kansas, Inc. (1982), Jones v. New York State Division of Military & Naval Affairs (1999)
24 federal appellate · 8 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 10 U.S.C. § 1552 · 32 U.S.C. § 709 (National Guard Technicians Act of 1968) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters · Orloff v. Willoughby
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may offer a convenient pretext for giving force and effect to racial prejudice,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We have held that findings are not to be determined clearly erroneous unless, after a review of the entire record, we are left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is beyond argument that a rating procedure used by an historically segregated employer which favors applicants already employed full-time falls squarely within the prohibition of Griggs.”
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.