Lorance v. at Technologies, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
827 F.2d 163 · 1987
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably Lorance v. At&t Technologies, Inc. (1989), DeBruyne v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (1990)
22 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Delaware State College v. Ricks · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · American Tobacco Co. v. Patterson · Cruz v. Hauck
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“facially-neutral but discriminatory seniority system[s]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While the district court's failure to determine the nature of this action is problematic under rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure--which requires the district court to decide the question of class certification”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.