Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
740 F.2d 1071 · 1984
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 18 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (1984), Hohri v. United States (1986)
66 federal appellate · 18 district · 7 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 255 · 29 U.S.C. § 260 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bizarre result, ... 'that a party who has chosen not to argue a point on a first appeal should stand better as regards the law of the case than one who had argued and lost.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carolee Brady Hartman All Other Approx. 50 Additional v. Joseph Duffey, Director, United States Information Agency All Other One Additional Carolee Brady Hartman All Other Approx. 50 Additional v. Joseph Duffey, Director, United States Information Agency All Other One Additional · Cowgill v. Raymark Industries, Inc.“We do not intend to allow this avenue of attack on the law of the case to become an auxiliary vehicle for the repetition of arguments previously advanced, without success ...”). . D.I. 11. . Id. . D.I. 39. . D.I. 64. . See Order Assigning Adversary Proceeding to Mediation and Appointing Mediator, D.I. 18 (”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is, of course, necessary to the orderly conduct of litigation.”
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.