Lang v. Star Herald’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably David Weber/appellant v. Strippit Inc (1999), Helfter v. United Parcel Service, Inc. (1997)
20 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of or on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions;....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Reference to [the McDonnell-Douglas burden-shifting] analysis is not necessary... or even recommended. The burden-shifting analysis is simply a procedural framework that progressively focuses the inquiry on the question of whether a material issue of discrimination in fact exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer ... to discharge any individual, ... because of such individual's ... sex, ....”
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.