Murphy v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
990 F.2d 540 · 1993
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2008
11 federal appellate · 4 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Allen v. Wright · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody · Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a specific identifiable employment practice or policy caused a significant disparate impact on a protected group.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he thrust of the inquiry is whether the employer's practice creates `artificial, arbitrary and unnecessary barriers to employment.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'business justification' for its action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.