Pointer v. Sampson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc. · Bowe v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. · John Martin Oatis, David Johnson, Sr., and R. T. Young v. Crown Zellerbach Corporation · Polcover v. Secretary of Treasury
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a class action cannot be maintained if there is not an administrative record for each prospective member of the 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.