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7 F.3d 40 · 1993

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
February 2022
most recently cited

13 federal appellate · 6 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Graham-Humphreys v. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Inc. (2000), Million v. Frank (1995)

13 federal appellate · 6 district ·

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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 Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority · Blum v. Yaretsky · Rendell-Baker v. Kohn · United States v. Price · National Collegiate Athletic Assn. v. Tarkanian

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he limitations period is triggered when the Postal Service delivers notice to a plaintiff that the right-to-sue letter is available for pick up, and not when the letter is actually picked up. Requiring actual pick up to trigger the period would allow for ... manipulation of the limitations period....”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “suspected that the letter about which she had received notice from the Postal Service was a letter from the EEOC”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[i]f the limitations period was [tolled] until she picked up the letter, she conceivably could have tolled the period for as long as she chose simply by not picking up the letter.”
    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.