Thomas v. Denny's, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.3d 1506 · 1997
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 32 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 131 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Chapman v. AI Transport (2000), Sanchez v. Denver Public Schools (1998)
53 federal appellate · 32 district · 5 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins · Wilson v. Garcia
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 131 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at least in part because [she complained of sexual harassment by Dr. Kinzer] (citations omitted) ... Indeed, proof that an improper motive played a role in the employer’s decision is rarely stronger than this. In the face of this kind of direct evidence, [the employer] must ultimately establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, that it would [have terminated appellant] even if a desire to retaliate in no way tainted its decisionmaking.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[W]e review de novo the question of whether the court's instructions, considered as a whole, properly state the applicable law and focus the jury on the relevant inquiry.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“are particularly easy for an employer to invent in an effort to sabotage a plaintiff's prima facie case and mask discrimination.”
2 later decisions 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.