Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. University of Detroit’s Empirical Analysis
904 F.2d 331 · 1990
Citation profile
367 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 480 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Pierce v. Commonwealth Life Insurance (1994), Adams v. Metiva (1994)
367 federal appellate · 3 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 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 MacArthur Co. v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison · California ex rel. State Lands Commission v. United States · Ansonia Board of Education v. Philbrook · Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Broyles
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 480 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“making all reasonable inferences in favor of the nonmoving party to determine if a genuine issue of material fact”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The term "religion" includes all aspects of religious observation and practice, as well as belief, unless an employer demonstrates that he is unable to reasonably accommodate to an employee’s or prospective employee’s religious observance or practice without undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) he or she has a bona fide religious belief that conflicts with an employment requirement; (2) he or she informed the employer of this belief; (3) he or she was disciplined for failure to comply with the conflicting employment requirement.”
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.