Williams v. Owens-Illinois, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
665 F.2d 918 · 1982
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 27 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2019 · most notably Allison v. Citgo Petroleum Corp. (1998), Arizona Governing Committee for Tax Deferred Annuity & Deferred Compensation Plans v. Norris (1983)
95 federal appellate · 27 district · 10 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 Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] systematic policy of discrimination is actionable even if some or all of the events evidencing its inception occurred prior to the limitations period.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“continuing impact from past violations is not actionable. Continuing violations are.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is within the discretion of the trial judge, under Rule 23(c)(4), to limit the issues in a class action to those parts of a lawsuit which lend themselves to convenient use of the class action motif.”
3 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.