Plautz v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2024
1 federal appellate · 2 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 29 U.S.C. § 791 · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 12111 (§ 101 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the adverse-employment action element was designed to filter out discrimination cases that caused 'merely inconvenience’ or a ‘bruised ego.' ” Id. at 817 . Noting that the thirty-seven day loss of pay in White went”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kent v. Iowa
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.