Moore v. Hughes Helicopters Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 475 · 1983
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio (1989), Gafford v. General Electric Co. (1993)
100 federal appellate · 12 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Hazelwood School District v. United States
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that an employment practice selects members of a protected class in a proportion smaller than their percentage in the pool of actual applicants.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable, (2) there are questions of law or fact common to the class, (3) the claims or defenses of the representative parties are typical of the claims or defenses of the class, and (4) the representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interests of the class.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]isparate impact should always be measured against the actual pool of applicants or eligible employees unless there is a characteristic of the challenged selection device that makes use of the actual pool of applicants or eligible employees inappropriate.”
3 later decisions 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.