Smith v. Pyro Mining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 1081 · 1987
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. University of Detroit (1990), Shapolia v. Los Alamos National Laboratory (1993)
54 federal appellate · 10 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 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 Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Neil v. Biggers · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison · Lombard v. Marcera
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The analysis of any religious accommodation case begins with the question of whether the employee has established a prima facie case of religious discrimination.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“includes all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief, unless an employer demonstrates that he is unable to reasonably accommodate to an employees' ... religious observance or practice without undue hardship on the conduct of the employer's business. 22 42 U.S.C. Sec. 2000e(j) (1982).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the burden is on the employer to accommodate the employee's religious needs, the employee must make some effort to cooperate with an employer's attempt at accommodation.”
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.