Ellis v. Ringgold School District’s Empirical Analysis
832 F.2d 27 · 1987
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably Robinson v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (1993), Versarge v. Township of Clinton New Jersey (1993)
16 federal appellate · 1 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 (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · Ford Motor Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Japan Whaling Ass'n v. American Cetacean Society · Utility Contractors, Inc. v. United States · Maxfield v. Sinclair International
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.
“42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(g). Although reinstatement is the preferred remedy to avoid future lost earnings, a court may deny reinstatement”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]tanding alone, the fact that a plaintiff takes a job in an unrelated field to meet her obligation of mitigation should not be construed as a voluntary withdrawal from her former profession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“reinstatement ... with or without back pay ..., or any other equitable relief as the court deems appropriate.”
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.