Freeman v. Continental Technical Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2013
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison · Nix v. WLCY Radio/Rahall Communications · DeCintio v. Westchester County Medical Center · McCollum v. Bolger
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would be possible for a male supervisor to have an intimate homosexual relationship with a lower level male employee. If subsequent events, such as the employee’s threat to blatantly expose the relationship to the supervisor’s wife, friends and subordinates, caused the supervisor to terminate the employee, it would not be because the employee was a male.”
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.