Coffman v. Tracker Marine, L.P.’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.3d 1241 · 1998
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Howard v. Burns Bros. (1998), Duncan v. General Motors Corp. (2002)
33 federal appellate · 19 district · 3 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 Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona · Unisys Corp. v. Pickering · Johnson v. Bunny Bread Co. · Carter v. Ball · Bourque v. Powell Electrical Manufacturing 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n employee who quits without giving his employer a reasonable chance to work out a problem has not been constructively discharged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'an employee has an obligation not to assume the worst and not to jump to conclusions too quickly. An employee who quits without giving [her] employer a reasonable chance to work out a problem has not been constructively discharged.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“policies underlying Title VII will be best served ... [when] unlawful discrimination is attacked within the context of existing employment relationships,”
2 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.