Young v. Bayer Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
123 F.3d 672 · 1997
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Parkins v. Civil Constructors of Illinois, Inc. (1998), Silk v. City of Chicago (1999)
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Waltman v. International Paper Co. · Baskerville v. Culligan International Co. · Torres v. Pisano · Van Zant v. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines · Hall v. Gus Construction 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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he information must either (1) come to the attention of someone who (a) has under the terms of his employment, or (b) is reasonably believed to have, or (c) is reasonably charged by law with having, a duty to pass on the information to someone within the company who has the power to do something about it; or (2) come to the attention of such a someone.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A department head would ordinarily be such a someone with regard to complaints of misconduct lodged by a worker in his department. If he receives such a complaint he would be obligated by elementary principles of management and good sense either to resolve the problem himself or to refer it to someone else within the company, who can.”
4 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.