Oliver POLLARD, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. REA MAGNET WIRE COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellant’s Empirical Analysis
824 F.2d 557 · 1987
Citation profile
150 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 252 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Dister v. Continental Group, Inc. (1988), Shager v. Upjohn Co. (1990)
150 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Furnco Construction Corp. v. Waters · McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation 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 252 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No matter how medieval a firm's practices, no matter how high-handed its decisional process, no matter how mistaken the firm's managers, Title VII and § 1981 do not interfere.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasons honestly described but poorly founded”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the employer gave an honest explanation of its behavior.”
6 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.