Kent v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981A · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 5 U.S.C. § 2302
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · Brown v. General Services Administration · Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. Bonjorno
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was deliberately left undecided; Congress left the issue to be determined by the federal courts, with different factions each hoping that their view”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“highly personal violations beyond the meaning of discrimination.”
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.