Hathaway v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.3d 1214 · 1997
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Mendoza v. Borden, Inc. (1999), Carter v. Chrysler Corp. (1999)
88 federal appellate · 14 district · 4 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 (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Lavender v. Kurn · Dey v. Colt Construction & Development Co. · Baskerville v. Culligan International 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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no bright line between sexual harassment and merely unpleasant conduct so a jury's decision must generally stand unless there is trial error.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Judgment as a matter of law is proper “[o]nly when there is a complete absence of probative facts to support the conclusion reached” so that no reasonable juror could have found for the nonmoving party.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A work environment is shaped by the accumulation of abusive conduct, and the resulting harm cannot be measured by carving it 'into a series of discrete incidents.'”
6 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.