Wofford v. Safeway Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Weiss v. York Hospital (1984), Wrighten v. Metropolitan Hospitals, Inc. (1984)
4 federal appellate · 8 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 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Logic as well as authority dictate this result. To permit a plaintiff to assert the claims of a class of which he is not a part and to seek relief in which he has no concrete individual interest is to sanction a sham class action and to abandon any substantial role for the named plaintiff himself, as distinguished from his attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[M]ere anticipation that all class members will benefit from the suit ... is not enough. But interests sufficiently parallel to ensure a vigorous and full presentation of all potential claims for relief should satisfy Rule 23(a)(3)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“even-handed application of reasonable grooming regulations”
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.