Milburn v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2010
4 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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 (§ 717 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Landgraf v. USI Film Products
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant’s failure to comply with its own equal employment obligations cannot form a basis for Title VII liability. However, noncompliance can serve as evidence of defendant’s intent. Defendant’s failure to comply with its own affirmative action program supports an inference of discriminatory intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'marginal distinctions with uncertain consequences'”
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.