Blackburn v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
982 F.2d 125 · 1992
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 5851 · 5 U.S.C. § 706
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Richardson v. Perales · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Carey v. Piphus
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he person discriminated against should only recover damages for the period of time he would have worked but for wrongful termination; he should not recover damages for the time after which his employment would have ended for a nondiscriminatory reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“diminished financial situation brought about because of his inability to find a job following his termination from Metric.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blackburn v. Reich
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.