Taylor v. Runyon’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.3d 861 · 1999
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Chapman v. AI Transport (2000), Cooper v. Southern Co. (2004)
20 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · California v. ARC America Corp. · Baltimore City Department of Social Services v. Bouknight
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n cases of discrimination proven by direct evidence, it is incorrect to rely on the McDonnell Douglas test because, while circumstantial evidence is used to create an inference of discrimination under McDonnell Douglas, no such inference is required in the case of direct evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]nce a plaintiff produces direct evidence of a discriminatory motive, and the trier of facts accepts this testimony the ultimate issue of discrimination is proved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonably form a good faith belief that the alleged discrimination existed.”
2 later decisions 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.