Conaway v. Control Data Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
955 F.2d 358 · 1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Davis v. Johnson (1998), Tyler v. Union Oil Company of California (2002)
6 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · California v. ARC America Corp.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““focuses on the plaintiffs excusable ignorance of the employer’s discriminatory act____” A case of equitable tolling would arise, for example ... if the employee “could not by the exercise of reasonable diligence have discovered essential information bearing on his claim.” Equitable tolling focuses on the employee’s ignorance, not on any possible misconduct by the employer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For each of the following plaintiffs, do you find that the defendant's conduct induced him to refrain from filing his claim with the EEOC within 300 days of the alleged unlawful practices?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiff's unsupported allegation that the EEOC provided incomplete information in a telephone conversation” to support equitable tolling”
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.