Achor v. Riverside Golf Club’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.3d 339 · 1997
Citation profile
30 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Pivirotto v. Innovative Systems, Inc. (1999), Ortiz v. Werner Enterprises, Inc. (2016)
30 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Holland v. United States · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is Plaintiff’s burden to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that he was discharged by the defendant because of his age. In order for you to determine whether Plaintiff was discharged because of his age, you must decide whether Defendant would have fired Plaintiff had he been younger than 40 and everything else had remained the same.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether a given employee serves at will, or for a term of years, or under a contract requiring `good cause' for discharge, is neither here nor there . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e doubt [the at-will instruction] should have been given, and we are confident that they should not have used ... formal terminology.”
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.