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850 F.2d 356 · 1988

Citation profile

54
cited by 54 later decisions
August 2016
most recently cited

20 federal appellate · 10 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Schnellbaecher v. Baskin Clothing Co. (1989), Wallace v. DTG Operations, Inc. (2006)

20 federal appellate · 10 district ·

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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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)

Relies on Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Mann v. Koob · Griffin v. Carlin · Hicks v. ABT Associates, Inc.

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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Accordingly, the sweep of any subsequent judicial complaint may be as broad as the scope of the EEOC `investigation which could reasonably be expected to grow out of the charge of discrimination.'”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 635 F. Supp. 2d 970 - Donnelly v. St. John's Mercy Medical Center · 5 F. Supp. 2d 743 - Edwards v. WINCO Mfg. Co., Inc.
  2. “Because persons filing charges with the EEOC typically lack legal training, those charges must be interpreted with the utmost liberality in order not to frustrate the remedial purposes of Title VII.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 635 F. Supp. 2d 970 - Donnelly v. St. John's Mercy Medical Center · 945 F. Supp. 1235 - Nichols v. American Nat. Ins. Co.
  3. “[t]he purpose of filing a charge with the EEOC is to provide the Commission an opportunity to investigate and attempt a resolution of the controversy through conciliation before permitting the aggrieved party to pursue a lawsuit.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Mohr v. Dustrol, Inc. · 966 F. Supp. 858 - Woelbling v. RC Wilson Co.

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.