Brown v. McLean’s Empirical Analysis
159 F.3d 898 · 1998
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Stella v. Mineta (2002), Bass v. Board of County Commissioners (2001)
23 federal appellate · 13 district · 6 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · O'CONNOR v. Consolidated Coin Caterers Corp. · Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to make out a prima facie case of discriminatory termination, a plaintiff must ordinarily show that the position ultimately was filled by someone not a member of the protected class.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he failure to apply for a job does not preclude recovery if a claimant can demonstrate that he would have applied but for an accurate knowledge of the employer's discrimination and that he would have been discriminatorily rejected had he actually applied.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) [she] is a member of a protected group; (2) [she] applied for the position in question; (3) [she] was qualified for the position; and (4) [she] was rejected for the position under circumstances giving rise to an inference of unlawful discrimination.”
2 later decisions 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.