Anderson v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2005
1 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Quern v. Jordan · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer · 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Permissive Joinder. All persons may join in one action as plaintiffs if they assert any right to relief jointly, severally, or in the alternative in respect of or arising out of the same transaction, occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences and if any question of law or fact common to all these persons will arise in the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Here, the only connection between [Chicago] plaintiffs’] — cause of action and [St. Louis] plaintiffs’] ... cause of action is that both [groups of] plaintiffs] are [African-Americans] and recovery is sought under the same legal theory [ie., race discrimination] against defendanf] [Pizza Hut]. 6”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.