Bachman v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2006
8 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 (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Brown v. General Services Administration · Ristaino v. Ross · Wetzel v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · Huff v. N. D. Cass Co. of Alabama
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Court re-emphasizes the conditional nature of this certification and notes that the class will be subject to re-definition, re-formulation, or even dissolution if discovery or other subsequent developments so warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bachman v. Pertschuk
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.