Mitchell v. Seaboard System Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
883 F.2d 451 · 1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2022
6 federal appellate · 6 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)
Relies on Memphis Community School District v. Stachura · Logiudice v. Georgia · Rasimas v. Michigan Department of Mental Health · Jones v. Continental Corp. · Maxwell v. Florida
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person deeming himself injured by any act in violation of the provisions of this chapter [the Kentucky Civil Rights Act] shall ... recover the actual damages sustained by him....””
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.