Welsh v. Derwinski’s Empirical Analysis
14 F.3d 85 · 1994
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 13 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Richardson v. New York State Department of Correctional Service (1999), 36 Cal. 4th 1028 - Yanowitz v. L'OREAL USA, INC. (2005)
13 federal appellate · 13 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 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Ivy v. Myers · United States v. Innamorati · Connell v. Bank of Boston · Broderick v. Roache
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not every unpleasant matter short of [discharge or demotion] creates a cause of action”
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.