93 Wash. 2d 368 - Fahn v. Cowlitz County’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 97 Wash. 2d 317 - Franklin County Sheriff's Office v. Sellers (1982), 106 Wash. 2d 901 - E-Z Loader Boat Trailers, Inc. v. Travelers Indemnity Co. (1986)
3 federal appellate · 87 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 (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is an unfair practice for any employer... [t]o discharge or bar any person from employment because of ... marital status .... [or] to discriminate against any person in compensation or in other terms or conditions of employment because of ... marital status.... [ [2] ]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'[A]dministrative rules adopted pursuant to a legislative grant of authority are presumed to be valid and should be upheld on judicial review if they are reasonably consistent with the statute being implemented.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“elimination and prevention of discrimination in employment”
2 later decisions 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.