Harness v. Hartz Mountain Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1307 · 1989
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2014
7 federal appellate · 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 (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Rector Etc of Holy Trinity Church v. United States · General Electric Co. v. Gilbert · United Steelworkers of America v. Weber · Plessy v. Ferguson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress intended the PDA to be a floor beneath which pregnancy disability benefits may not drop--not a ceiling above which they may not rise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.