Beall v. Abbott Laboratories’s Empirical Analysis
130 F.3d 614 · 1997
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 40 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Smith v. First Union National Bank (2000), Laber v. Harvey (2006)
20 federal appellate · 40 district · 1 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Sobin v. United States · Evans v. Technologies Applications & Service Co. · Dale v. Chicago Tribune 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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“both that the reason was false and that discrimination was the real reason for the challenged conduct.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the plaintiff engaged ih a protected activity, such as filing a complaint with the EEOC; (2) the employer acted adversely against the plaintiff; and (3) the protected activity was causally connected to the employer’s adverse action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to rebut the presumption of retaliation by articulating a legitimate nonretaliatory reason for its actions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.