Favors v. Fisher’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 1235 · 1994
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Byrnie v. Town of Cromwell (2001), Carter v. Ball (1994)
12 federal appellate · 2 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 (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Air Line Pilots Ass'n, International v. Thurston · Marguerite Hicks v. The Gates Rubber Company · Craik v. Minnesota State University Board
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The elements necessary to establish a prima facie case vary according to the circumstances of the alleged discrimination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was entitled to the benefit of a presumption that the destroyed documents would have bolstered her case”
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.