O'Connor v. University’s Empirical Analysis
123 F.3d 665 · 1997
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Drake v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (1998), McMillan v. Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1998)
38 federal appellate · 2 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · O'CONNOR v. Consolidated Coin Caterers Corp. · Fertel-Rust v. Milwaukee Police Department · McCoy v. WGN Continental Broadcasting Co.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On the issue of pretext, our only concern is the honesty of the employer's explanation.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[S]tray remarks'--made by the decisionmaker but not related to the disputed employment action--may be relevant to the question of pretext....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For purposes of the ADEA, we may not be concerned with whether the decision was right or wrong, fair or unfair, well-considered or precipitous. We must look only at whether the decision was discriminatory or, in the pretext analysis, whether it actually did underlie the plaintiff's termination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beatty v. Wood
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.