Geller v. Markham’s Empirical Analysis
635 F.2d 1027 · 1980
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 30 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Montana v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n (1989), Kirsch v. Fleet Street, Ltd. (1998)
103 federal appellate · 30 district · 9 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 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Washington v. Davis
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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`plainly contrary to the terms of the Act and the purpose of Congress in enacting it.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“employment practices that are facially neutral in their treatment of different groups but that in fact fall more harshly on one group than another and cannot be justified by business necessity.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[T]he [substantive] prohibitions of the ADEA were derived in haec verba from Title VII,'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Air Line Pilots Association, International v. Trans World Airlines, Inc., Harold H. Thurston and Nicholas Vasilaros, Defendants- Intervenors Harold H. Thurston, Christopher J. Clark and C. A. Parkhill, Plaintiffs- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. And Air Line Pilots Association, International · Massarsky 82-5176 v. General Motors Corporation 82-5177
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.