Pouncil v. Tilton’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.3d 568 · 2012
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan · Turner v. Safley · Delaware State College v. Ricks · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Bazemore v. Friday
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, discrete discriminatory acts are not actionable if time barred, even when they are related to acts alleged in timely filed charges. Each discrete discriminatory act starts a new clock for filing charges alleging that act.... The existence of past acts and the employee’s prior knowledge of their occurrence, however, does not bar employees from filing charges about related discrete acts so long as the acts are independently discriminatory and charges addressing those acts are themselves timely filed. Nor does the statute bar an employee from using the prior acts as background evidence in support of a timely claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause there is no specified statute of limitations for an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , the federal courts look to the law of the state in which the cause of action arose and apply the state law of limitations governing an analogous cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“proper defendant on a claim for prospective injunctive relief ... because he would be responsible for ensuring that injunctive relief was carried out, even if he was not personally involved in the decision giving rise to [plaintiff's] claims”
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.