O'Brien v. Sky Chefs, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 864 · 1982
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2008 · most notably Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. (1997), Officers for Justice v. Civil Service Commission (1982)
40 federal appellate · 7 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 · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters · Sosna v. Iowa
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(s)ince plaintiffs' failure to produce evidence may have been due to inadequate representation of the class interests rather than to absence of classwide discrimination, decertification avoided any res judicata effect against the class.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“subjective decision-making strengthens an inference of discrimination from general statistical data ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]tatistical data is one way to establish a prima facie case”
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.