Swanson v. General Services Administration’s Empirical Analysis
110 F.3d 1180 · 1997
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably McCoy v. City of Shreveport (2007), Shackelford v. Deloitte & Touche, LLP (1999)
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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 Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Stafford v. Oklahoma · United States v. Louisiana
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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Close timing between an employee's protected activity and an adverse action against [her] may provide the 'causal connection' required to make out a prima facie case of retaliation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the mere fact that some adverse action is taken after an employee engages in some protected activity will not always be enough for a prima facie case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[to] satisfy the statutory burden, the plaintiff must offer some evidence, whether direct or circumstantial, that permits the jury to infer that the proffered explanation was a pretext for illegal discrimination.”
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.