Jones v. Billington’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 73 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 290 F. Supp. 2d 11 - Lester v. Natsios (2003), Pardo-Kronemann v. Donovan (2010)
1 federal appellate · 73 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) he is a member of a protected class; (2) he was subjected to unwelcome harassment; (3) the harassment occurred because of his race; (4) the harassment affected a term, condition, or privilege of his employment; and (5) the employer knew or should have known of the harassment, but failed to take any action to prevent it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1) that the plaintiff is a member of a protected class; (2) that the plaintiff was subject to unwelcome racial harassment; (3) that the harassment occurred be cause of h[er] race; [4) ] that the harassment affected a term, condition or privilege of h[er] employment; and [5) ] that the employer knew or should have known of the harassment, but failed to take any action to prevent the harassment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Plaintiff has not demonstrated that any of the conduct of which he complains was related to his race, or that his workplace was permeated with racially discriminatory behavior”
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.