Smith v. Singer Co.’s Empirical Analysis
650 F.2d 214 · 1981
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2018
10 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Hochstadt v. Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology · Womack v. Munson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By filing complaints ... because he disagreed with [his employer's] choice of policies ... [plaintiff] wholly disabled himself from continuing to represent the company's interests as its liaison with the enforcement agencies, and from continuing to work ... in the voluntary development of nondiscriminatory hiring programs.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It was the very purpose of appellant’s job to assist Singer in achieving such [voluntary] compliance; the job was held by him not as a private attorney general but as a company executive. The position was unique in that it required the occupant to act on behalf of his employer in an area where normally action against the employer and on behalf of the employees is protected activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The job required appellant to develop affirmative action programs; assist in identifying problem areas; assist management in solving problems; design audit and reporting systems to measure the effectiveness of the programs; serve as a liaison between the contractor and the enforcement agencies and between the contractor and the minority, women’s and community action groups; and keep management informed of the latest de velopments in equal opportunity enforcement.”
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.