Colby v. Jc Penney Company Inc’s Empirical Analysis
811 F.2d 1119 · 1987
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 272 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Beard v. Whitley County REMC (1988), Williams v. Ashland Engineering Co. (1995)
95 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Parklane Hosiery Co. v. Shore · O'Shea v. Littleton · General Telephone Co. of the Northwest, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Dothard v. Rawlinson
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 272 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]istrict judges in this circuit must not treat decisions by other district judges, in this and a fortiori in other circuits, as controlling, unless of course the doctrine of res judicata or of collateral estoppel applies. Such decisions will normally be entitled to no more weight than their intrinsic persuasiveness merits. The reasons we gave for giving some though not controlling weight to decisions of other federal courts of appeals do not apply to decisions of other district courts, because the responsibility for maintaining the law’s uniformity is a responsibility of appellate rather than trial judges and because the Supreme Court does not assume the burden of resolving conflicts between district judges whether in the same or different circuits.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'unless and until they have been overruled or undermined by the decisions of a higher court, or other supervening developments, such as a statutory overruling.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“maintaining a reasonable uniformity of federal law and in sparing the Supreme Court the burden of taking cases merely to resolve conflicts between circuits.”
4 later decisions 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.