Ghane v. West’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.3d 979 · 1998
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Richard Ruiz Foundation Anchoring Systems Inc v. Ab Chance Company (2000), Floyd v. State of Missouri Department of Social Services (1999)
19 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Saint Francis College v. Al-Khazraji · Aucutt v. Six Flags Over Mid-America, 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“filed an EEOC complaint or formally complained to any of his superiors about illegal discrimination,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. No. 98-3115 · Brower v. Runyon“was used in a derogatory manner ... [it] is insufficient as a matter of law to support a reasonable inference ... [of] pretexts for unlawful discrimination because there [was] no evidence that the remark was either made by a decision maker or made in connection with the decisional process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiff can avoid summary judgment only if the evidence considered in its entirety (1) creates a fact issue as to whether the employer's proffered reasons are pretextual and (2) creates a reasonable inference that [race] was a determinative factor in the adverse employment decision.”
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.