Marks v. Prattco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.2d 1122 · 1981
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Rasimas v. Michigan Department of Mental Health (1983), Walker v. Ford Motor Co. (1982)
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on James v. Stockham Valves & Fittings Co. · Morrow v. Dillard · Sias v. City Demonstration Agency · Marks v. Prattco, Inc. · Myers v. Gilman Paper Corp.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nce a plaintiff in a Title VII case has established a prima facie case and established what he or she contends to be the damages resulting from the discriminatory acts of the employer, the burden of producing further evidence on the question of damages in order to establish the amount of interim earnings or lack of diligence properly falls to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“finding[s] that both plaintiffs had exercised reasonable diligence in seeking employment following their wrongful termination ... are findings of fact, which we review subject to the 'clearly erroneous' standard of Fed.R.Civ.P. 52(a)”
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.