Pecker v. Heckler’s Empirical Analysis
801 F.2d 709 · 1986
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Diamond v. Atwood (1995), Laber v. Harvey (2006)
21 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 (§ 701 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 Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · Weatherford v. Bursey · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Patterson v. American Tobacco Co.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e think that the defendants are bound by the EEOC's findings of discrimination and retaliation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“require that the district courts enforce final EEOC decisions favorable to federal employees....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“supporting his position. Aplt. Br. at 26. In Pecker, the plaintiff, who succeeded in obtaining a finding of discrimination by the EEOC, brought a civil action asking the court to expand the relief awarded by the EEOC. The issue arose whether the plaintiff was entitled to a court order affirming the EEOC's finding of discrimination. In a footnote, the court answered the question in the affirmative, noting first that the issue was not placed squarely before the district court in the first place and stating that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Timmons v. White
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.