Bibbs v. Block’s Empirical Analysis

778 F.2d 1318 · 1985

Citation profile

112

cited by 112 later decisions

cited 4 times by the Supreme Court

states following

June 2013

most recently cited

80 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 112 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989), 133 S. Ct. 2517 - University of Tex. Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar (2013)

80 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States

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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“an unlawful motive played some part in the employment decision or decisional process.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
e.g. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. General Lines, Inc. · University of Tex. Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar
“Every kind of disadvantage resulting from racial prejudice in the employment setting is outlawed. Forcing Bibbs to be considered for promotion in a process in which race plays a discernible part is itself a violation of the law, regardless of the outcome of the process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. White v. University of Arkansas · Edwards v. Jewish Hospital
“that an unlawful motive played some part in the employment decision.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. McQuillen v. Wisconsin Education Association Council Et Al. · Hopkins v. Price Waterhouse

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.