Ulane v. Eastern Airlines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 1081 · 1984
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Quick v. Donaldson Co. (1996), Bostock v. Clayton County (2020)
46 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 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 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 45 U.S.C. § 184 (Railway Labor Act)
Relies on Perrin v. United States · Juidice v. Vail · 19 Robert Desantis v. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., Inc. · Ramona HOLLOWAY, Appellant, v. ARTHUR ANDERSEN AND COMPANY, Appellee
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is unlawful to discriminate against women because they are women and against men because they are men.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress had a narrow view of sex in mind”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“never considered nor intended that [Title VII] apply to anything other than the traditional concept of sex.”
4 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.