Porter v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
639 F.2d 273 · 1981
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Rochon v. Gonzales (2006), Kizas v. Webster (1983)
40 federal appellate · 10 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 705 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Brown v. General Services Administration · Sampson v. Murray · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Macklin v. Spector Freight Systems Inc. · Dent v. St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The exhaustion requirement ... is an absolute prerequisite to suit”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by drafting Sec. 717 to prohibit 'any discrimination' Congress intended to bar the federal government from engaging in all those forms of discrimination identified in Secs. 703 and 704, and others as well.”
2 later decisions 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.