Williams v. Vought’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 14th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 633 (§ 14 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 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 Faragher v. City of Boca Raton · Monge v. California · Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth · Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Havner
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who has initiated an action in a court of competent jurisdiction or who has an action pending before an administrative agency under other law or an order or ordinance of a political subdivision of this state based on an act that would be an unlawful employment practice under this chapter may not file a complaint under this subchapter for the same grievance.”
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.