Peterson v. City of Wichita’s Empirical Analysis
888 F.2d 1307 · 1989
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 24 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Edelman v. Lynchburg College (2002), Montes v. Vail Clinic, Inc. (2007)
23 federal appellate · 24 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 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 Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Commercial Office Products Co. · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Shell Oil Co. · Weeks v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Choate v. Caterpillar Tractor Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A charge may be amended to cure technical defects or omissions, including failure to verify the charge, or to clarify and amplify allegations made therein. Such amendments and amendments alleging additional acts which constitute unlawful employment practices related to or growing out of the subject matter of the original charge will relate back to the date the charge was first received.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Title VII is remedial legislation to be construed liberally rather than technically.”
2 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.