Powell v. Missouri State Highway & Transportation Department’s Empirical Analysis
822 F.2d 798 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Delph v. Dr. Pepper Bottling Co. of Paragould, Inc. (1997), United States v. Almendares (2005)
20 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Johnson v. Bunny Bread Co. · Bibbs v. Block
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“simply because ... we would have weighed the evidence differently or disagree as to where it preponderates.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
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.