Wileman v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
979 F.2d 30 · 1992
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Evans v. Technologies Applications & Service Co. (1996), Jiminez v. Mary Washington College (1995)
8 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 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 States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Pullman-Standard v. Swint
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When two applicants meet the minimum educational qualifications of a position, Title VII does not prevent an employer from preferring the applicant who has educational qualifications which surpass the minimum requirements of the position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the employer has discretion to choose among equally qualified candidates provided the decision is not based upon unlawful criteria,”
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.