Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Madison Community Unit School District No. 12’s Empirical Analysis
818 F.2d 577 · 1987
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Mary J. Riordan v. William L. Kempiners and Shirley Randolph (1987), Schnellbaecher v. Baskin Clothing Co. (1989)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 215 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 255 · 29 U.S.C. § 260 · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Washington v. Davis · Hagans v. Lavine · Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, Inc. · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston · Corning Glass Works v. Brennan
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.
“[i]n situations where the jurisdictional prerequisites of both the [Equal Pay Act] and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 200e [sic] et seq., are satisfied, any violation of the Equal Pay Act is a violation of Title VII.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'exceptional circumstances showing a clear abuse of discretion[ ]' ") (quoting Stinebower v. Scala, 331 F.2d 366 , 367 (7th Cir.1964)); accord Fleming v. County of Kane, 898 F.2d 553 , 559 (7th Cir.1990). 11 See also EEOC v. Madison Community Unit School Dist. No. 12, 818 F.2d 577 , 586 (7th Cir.1987) ("to avoid double damages the defendant must prove that he was acting in the sincere and reasonably grounded belief that his conduct was lawful, and if he proves this the district court 'may, in its sound discretion'--not must--award only single damages”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees ... at a rate less than the rate at which [the employer] pays wages to employees of the opposite sex ... for equal work on jobs the performance of which requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where such payment is made pursuant to----(iv) a differential based on any other factor other than sex.”
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.