Taylor v. Metzger’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 58 district · 133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Faragher v. City of Boca Raton (1998), Abramson v. William Paterson College (2001)
7 federal appellate · 58 district · 133 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 Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Bibby v. United States · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) he suffered intentional discrimination because of his [race]; (2) the discrimination was pervasive and regular; (3) it detrimentally affected him; (4) it would have detrimentally affected a reasonable person of the same protected class in his position; and (5) there is a basis for vicarious liability. When a black plaintiff alleges racial harassment under the LAD, she must demonstrate that the defendant’s “conduct (1) would not have occurred but for the employee’s [race]; and [the conduct] was (2) severe or pervasive enough to make a(3) reasonable [African American] believe that (4) the conditions of employment are altered and the working environment is hostile or abusive.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hether an environment is `hostile' or `abusive' can be determined only by looking at all the circumstances.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a] supervisor has a unique role in shaping the work environment,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.