Barnett v. Department of Veterans Affairs’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.3d 338 · 1998
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Thaddeus-X v. Blatter (1999), Morris v. Oldham County Fiscal Court (2000)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · O'CONNOR v. Consolidated Coin Caterers Corp.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by supervisor who made it known that he disliked plaintiff and used her as the butt of office jokes is consistent with personal dislike rather than discriminatory animus); Kriss v. Sprint Communications Co., 58 F.3d 1276, 1281 (8th Cir. 1995) (use of the word”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile, under other circumstances, proof of personal conflict may provide some indicia of discriminatory animus, such is not the case here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[P]ersonal conflict does not equate with discriminatory animus.”
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.