Wilson v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
934 F.2d 301 · 1991
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably McFarland v. Leyh (1995), Charles A. Iadimarco v. Marvin T. Runyon, Postmaster General (1999)
16 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara Cty.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) that he belongs to a class; (2) that he applied for and was qualified for a job; (3) that he was rejected for the job; and (4) that the job was filled by a minority group member or a woman.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) that he belongs to a class; (2) that he applied for and was qualified for a job; (3) that he was rejected for the job; and (4) that the job was filled by a minority group member.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“at least equivalent to their percentage representation in the applicant pool from which such promotions are made”
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.