Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Penton Industrial Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
851 F.2d 835 · 1988
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably LRL Properties v. Portage Metro Housing Authority (1995), Jensen v. Frank (1990)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 255 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 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 Delaware State College v. Ricks · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Ratchford v. Gay Lib
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arises where there is some evidence of present discriminatory activity giving rise to a claim of a continuing violation, i.e., where an employer continues to presently impose disparate work assignment or pay rates between similarly situated employee groups.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that some form of intentional discrimination against the class of which plaintiff was a member was the company's 'standing operating procedure.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“narrowly limited exceptions of 'continuing violations'”
3 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.