Norton v. Sam's Club’s Empirical Analysis
145 F.3d 114 · 1998
Citation profile
194 federal appellate · 23 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 766 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Zhang v. Gonzales (2005), Cruz v. Coach Stores, Inc. (2000)
194 federal appellate · 23 district · 5 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 Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · United States Postal Service Board of Governors v. Aikens · Fisher v. Vassar College
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 766 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Issues not sufficiently argued in the briefs are considered waived and normally will not be addressed on appeal.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`such a complete absence of evidence supporting the verdict that the jury's findings could only have been the result of sheer surmise and conjecture, or such an overwhelming amount of evidence in favor of the [appellant] that reasonable and fair minded men could not arrive at a verdict against [the appellant].'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he ADEA does not make employers liable for doing stupid or even wicked things; it makes them liable for discriminating, for firing people on account on their age.”) (emphasis in original). 11 . Although the Johnstown Branch maintained its prior level of performance during this time, defendant wanted to see improvement in sales performance. (Def.’s Ex. G at 25.) 12 . The Severance Pay Policy prohibits the payment of severance benefits to persons terminated for cause. Pursuant to the policy, termination for cause includes”
3 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.