Leffel v. Valley Financial Services’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.3d 787 · 1997
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Davidson v. Midelfort Clinic, Ltd. (1998), Humphries v. CBOCS West, Inc. (2007)
52 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12112 (§ 102 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · O'CONNOR v. Consolidated Coin Caterers Corp.
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“emphasized that although that kind of proof 'may help to raise an inference of discrimination,’ it is not required to make out a prima facie case, so long as there is some evidence from which one can infer that the employer took adverse action against the plaintiff on the basis of a statutorily proscribed criterion.” Id. Accordingly, the Supreme Court’s opinion in O’Connor makes clear”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'(1) that [he was] disabled within the meaning of the ADA, (2) that [his] work performance met [his] employer's legitimate expectations, (3) that [he] was discharged, and (4) that the circumstances surrounding [his] . . . discharge indicate that it is more likely than not that [his] disability was the reason for these adverse actions.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A bank officer who is praised and given wide discretion in the performance of her duties one day but is confronted with a laundry list of manufactured criticisms and confining performance standards the next may be able to raise an inference that discrimination is afoot by establishing that the only intervening event was the disclosure that she is disabled.”
2 later decisions 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.