6 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 51 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Bazemore v. Friday.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bazemore v. Friday Anchor | green | “each week's paycheck that delivers less to a black than to a similarly situated white is a wrong actionable under title vii, regardless of the fact that this pattern was begun prior to the effective date of title vii.” | 21 |
| 2 | Alfred Brown, William King and Willie James Mallett, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Robert R. Sibley, Etc. | green | “this constitutional threshold must be met before any consideration of the typicality of claims or commonality of issues required for procedural reasons by fed.r.civ.p. 23.” | 6 |
| 3 | Peners L. Griffin and Henry L. Dejerinett v. Richard L. Dugger, Etc. | green | “as long as at least one named plaintiff timely filed an eeoc charge, the precondition to a title vii action is met for all other named plaintiffs and class members.” | 6 |
| 4 | Charles ROBERTS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GADSDEN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Defendant-Appellant. Gadsden County, Florida, Defendant | green | “the continuing violation doctrine does not exist to give a second chance to an employee who allowed a legitimate title vii claim to lapse.” | 4 |
| 5 | William T. Thigpen, Jr. v. Larry Justice | neutral | “in determining whether a discriminatory employment practice constitutes a continuing violation, this circuit distinguishes between the present consequence of a one time violation, which does not extend the limitations period, and the continuation of that violation into the prese…” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.