Ray v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
626 F.2d 439 · 1980
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Dollis v. Rubin (1995), Gupta v. East Texas State University (1981)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters · Brown v. General Services Administration · Sanchez v. Standard Brands, Inc.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'reasonably related' to charges in the administrative filing,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As long as allegations in the judicial complaint and proof are “reasonably related” to charges in the administrative filing and “no material differences” between them exist, the court will entertain them. As we have noted ..., “the ‘scope’ of the judicial complaint is limited to the ‘scope’ of the EEOC investigation which can reasonably be expected to grow out of the charge of discrimination.” Judicial claims which serve to amplify, clarify, or more clearly focus earlier EEO complaints are appropriate. Allegations of new acts of discrimination, offered as the essential basis for the requested judicial review and not appropriate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the 'scope' of the judicial complaint is limited to the 'scope' of the EEOC investigation which can reasonably be expected to grow out of the charge of discrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wu v. Thomas E
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.