Gilchrist v. Bolger’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2016
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War · East Texas Motor Freight System, Inc. v. Rodriguez · Houltin v. United States · General Telephone Co. of the Northwest, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Johnson v. Georgia Highway Express, Inc.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]laintiff's burden of proof to demonstrate the existence of this common question entails more than the simple assertion of its existence, but less than a prima facie showing of liability”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the simple assertion that applicants have suffered discrimination common with the named plaintiffs is insufficient under Rule 23(a)(2)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wagner v. Taylor
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.