Clover v. Total System Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.3d 1346 · 1999
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Brungart v. Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc. (2000), Farley v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance (1999)
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 10 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 28 U.S.C. § 46 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 706 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. · Harper v. Blockbuster Entertainment Corp. · Rush Pettway and Peter J. Wrenn v. American Cast Iron Pipe Company · Merritt v. Dillard Paper Co. · Little v. United Technologies
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this subchapter”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'that the protected activity and the adverse action were not wholly unrelated.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We review de novo a denial of judgment as a matter of law.”
3 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.