Johnson v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.3d 1081 · 1998
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Breeding v. Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (1999), Fenney v. Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad (2003)
25 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
Relies on Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Kimzey v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc · Delph v. Dr. Pepper Bottling Co. of Paragould, Inc. · Herrero v. St. Louis University Hospital · 107 F.3d -1016 - Kimzey v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The conduct complained of must have been severe or pervasive enough to create an objectively hostile or abusive work environment, and additionally the plaintiff must subjectively perceive the environment to be abusive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] constructive discharge occurs when an employer renders the employee's working conditions intolerable, forcing the employee to quit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“chose to accept an early retirement package rather than to wait and see what positions would be available following the reorganization”
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.