Saltz v. Lehman’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 207 · 1982
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 55 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs (1991), Bowden v. United States (1997)
48 federal appellate · 55 district · 1 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
Relies on Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Ratchford v. Gay Lib · Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party. Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party · Oaxaca v. Roscoe
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the complainant shows that he was not notified of the time limits and was not otherwise aware of them, or that he was prevented by circumstances beyond his control from submitting the matter within the time limits; or ... for any other reason considered sufficient by the agency. 29 C.F.R. § 1613.214 (a)(4).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he timely charge-filing requirement ... is not a jurisdictional prerequisite to suit in district court; it operates 'like a statute of limitations, [which] is subject to waiver, estoppel, and equitable tolling.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Time limits. (1) An agency shall require that a complaint be submitted in writing by the complainant or his representative and be signed by the complainant. The complaint may be delivered in person or submitted by mail. The agency may accept the complaint for processing in accordance with this subpart only if: (i) The complainant brought to the attention of the Equal Employment Opportunity Counselor the matter causing him to believe he had been discriminated against within 30 calendar days of the date of that matter, or, if a personnel action, within 30 calendar days of its effective date____”
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.