Harris’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2024
7 district · 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 Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Richardson v. Marsh · Smith v. Wade · City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. · Aspen Skiing Company v. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corporation
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mindful of the difficulty employers face when dealing with claims of harassment, finding themselves between the rock of an inadequate response under Title VII and the hard place of potential tort liability for wrongful discharge of the alleged harasser. The legal standard of "prompt and adequate remedial action" in no way requires an employer to dispense with fair procedures for those accused or to discharge every alleged harasser.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A complaining party may recover punitive damages under this section against a respondent (other than a government agency or political subdivision) if the complaining party demonstrates that the respondent engaged in a discriminatory practice or discriminatory practices with malice or with reckless indifference to the federally protected rights of an aggrieved individual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In evaluating the sufficiency of evidence on the malice or reckless indifference of employers, courts have focused on three types of evidence: (1) evidence of the employer’s attitude towards sexual harassment; (2) direct statements by the employer about plaintiffs’ rights or complaints; and (3) the egregiousness of the conduct at issue.”
1 later decision 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.