Forest v. United States Postal Service’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.3d 137 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Weiner Dpm v. Klais and Company Inc (1997), United States v. Simmonds (1997)
20 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 255 · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 39 U.S.C. § 401 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital · Brown v. General Services Administration · Library of Congress v. Shaw · Greening v. Moran
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our review is essentially the same as the district court's; We 'take the plaintiff's factual allegations as true and if it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of its claims that would entitle it to relief, then ... dismissal is proper.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A statute of limitation does not relate to the conduct of a defendant, but instead relates to the plaintiffs conduct in filing the claim____ Consequently, traditional retroactivity concerns are not present in this case____ [The new limitations period] was good law when Forest filed his complaint, and thus [we will apply the new limitations period.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statute does not operate 'retrospectively' merely because it is applied in a case arising from conduct antedating the statute's enactment or upsets expectations based on prior law.”
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.