Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Kimbrough Investment Co.’s Empirical Analysis
703 F.2d 98 · 1983
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Sullivan v. School Board of Pinellas County (1985), Vaughner v. Pulito (1986)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some testimony and some analysis of hiring practices was valid probative evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“investigation showed a potential for unlawful discrimination”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unreasonable, frivolous, meritless, or vexatious,”
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.