Richter v. Hook-SupeRx, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.3d 1024 · 1998
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 24 Cal. 4th 317 - Guz v. Bechtel National, Inc. (2000), Miller v. American Family Mutual Insurance (2000)
21 federal appellate · 8 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · O'CONNOR v. Consolidated Coin Caterers Corp. · Tiller v. NCNB Bank · Shibuya v. Voss
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he issue of pretext does not address the correctness or desirability of [the] reasons offered for employment decisions. Rather, it addresses the issue of whether the employerhonestly believes in the reasons it offers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While not dispositive, this Court has found it significant that individuals alleged to have discriminated on the basis of age were themselves members of the protected class.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a plaintiff must show that he was replaced by someone 'substantially younger,' although not necessarily outside the protected class.”
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.