Greer-Burger v. Temesi’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 183 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Blizzard v. Marion Technical College (2012), American Chemical Society v. Leadscope, Inc. (2012)
2 federal appellate · 150 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 · Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White · Robinson v. Shell Oil Co. · Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc.
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 183 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'that the proffered reason was not the true reason'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) [he] engaged in a protected activity, (2) the defending party was aware that the claimant had engaged in that activity, (3) the defending party took an adverse employment action against the employee, and (4) there is a causal connection between the protected activity and adverse action.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If a complainant establishes a prima facie case, the burden then shifts to the employer to 'articulate some legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason' for its actions.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.