Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. West Louisiana Health Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
959 F.2d 1277 · 1992
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Louisiana Office of Community Services (1995), Wilhelm v. Rotman (2012)
27 federal appellate ·
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 Budinich v. Becton Dickinson & Co. · Gomez v. United States · Porzig v. Nolden · Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba · Wrenn v. Ohio Department of Mental Health
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the law of this circuit that when judgment on a matter is entered by the district court, and not the magistrate, failure to obtain the consent of the parties to the proceeding before the magistrate is only a procedural error, not a jurisdictional error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]ules of court for the reference of civil matters to magistrates shall include procedures to protect the voluntariness of the parties' consent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Consent to trial by a magistrate under section 636(c) cannot be implied.”
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.