No. 83-4064’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 22 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Bowden v. United States (1997), Briones v. Runyon (1996)
5 federal appellate · 22 district · 3 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
Relies on Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Cannon v. University of Chicago · Brown v. General Services Administration · Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Darrone · Prewitt v. United States Postal Service
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a similarly situated person with a reasonably prudent regard for his rights”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he mere receipt and investigation of a complaint does not waive objection to a complainant's failure to comply with the original filing time limit when the later investigation does not result in an administrative finding of discrimination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Girard v. Rubin · Miller v. Zinke“is the exclusive remedy for discrimination in employment by the Postal Service on the basis of handicap.”
2 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.