Brownlee v. Lear Siegler Management Services Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
15 F.3d 976 · 1994
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Haynes v. Williams (1996), Coleman v. Houston Independent School District (1997)
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 29 U.S.C. § 630 (§ 11 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Applied Genetics International, Inc. v. First Affiliated Securities, Inc. · Shager v. Upjohn Co. · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Flasher Co. · Drake v. City of Fort Collins · Phillips v. Calhoun
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is not adequate appellate argument.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we know of no authority for imputing a principal’s discriminatory intent to an agent to make the agent liable for his otherwise neutral business decision. Similarly, while discriminatory practices of an agent may be imputed back to a principal to render the principal liable for its agent’s statutory violations, we have found no authority for imputing statutory liability in the opposite direction, from a culpable principal to an innocent agent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cite a single authority or even present a developed argument”
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.