Blue v. Widnall’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.3d 541 · 1998
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Chuang v. University of California Davis (2000), Keyser v. Sacramento City Unified School District (2001)
15 federal appellate · 8 district ·
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 10 U.S.C. § 1590 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 5 U.S.C. § 2108 · 5 U.S.C. § 2302 · 5 U.S.C. § 702 · 5 U.S.C. § 7511
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · United States v. Sherwood · Warren III v. City of Carlsbad · Godwin v. Hunt Wesson, Inc. · Saul v. United States
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With direct evidence, a triable issue as to the actual motivation of the employer is created even if the evidence is not substantial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“circumstantial evidence that tends to show that the employer's proffered motives were not the actual motives,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.