Miller v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
766 F.2d 490 · 1985
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Walters v. City of Atlanta (1986), Carden v. Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1988)
29 federal appellate · 3 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Ford Motor Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Taylor v. Safeway Stores, Inc. · 6 Fair empl.prac.cas. 813, 6 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 8876 John Henry Head v. Timken Roller Bearing Company · Martinez v. Orr
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen an employee opts to attend school, curtailing present earning capacity in order to reap greater future earnings, a back pay award for the period while attending school . . . would be like receiving a double benefit.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“available and willing to accept substantially equivalent employment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Title VII's statutory 30-day limitations period [42 U.S.C. Sec. 2000e-16(c) ] is not jurisdictional and is subject to equitable tolling”
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.