English v. Whitfield’s Empirical Analysis
858 F.2d 957 · 1988
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably English v. General Electric Co. (1990), 34 F. Supp. 2d 969 - Settle v. Baltimore County (1999)
12 federal appellate · 1 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 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 5851
Relies on Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Delaware State College v. Ricks · Chardon v. Fernandez · Price v. Litton Business System, Inc. · Janikowski v. Bendix Corp.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the employee’s failure to file in timely fashion is the consequence either of a deliberate design by the employer or of actions that the employer should unmistakably have understood would cause the employee to delay filing his charge. An employee’s hope for rehire, transfer, promotion, or a continuing employment relationship ... cannot toll the statute absent some employer conduct likely to mislead an employee into sleeping on his rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Faix v. Moen, Inc.“The effect of this ruling will be to increase the number of unripe and anticipatory lawsuits in the federal courts — lawsuits that should not be filed until some concrete harm has been suffered, and until the parties, and the forces of time, have had maximum opportunity to resolve the controversy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The notice of the challenged employment decision itself was in form final and unequivocal. There was no intimation in it that the decision was subject to further appeal, review, or revocation, either in whole or in part. Id. at 961 . 7”
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.