Jackson v. Harvard University’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 45 U.S.C. § 152 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins · United States v. Nixon
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.
“were made well before the plaintiff's tenure review process began and are manifestly too remote from the tenure decision-making process to have any relevance in this action”
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.