Bullington v. United Air Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
186 F.3d 1301 · 1999
Citation profile
84 federal appellate · 104 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 287 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Kendrick v. Penske Transportation Services, Inc. (2000), Lisa L. Fitzgerald v. William Henderson, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service (2001)
84 federal appellate · 104 district · 12 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · International Brotherhood of Teamsters 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 287 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relevant inquiry is not whether [the employer's] proffered reasons were wise, fair or correct, but whether [it] honestly believed those reasons and acted in good faith upon those beliefs.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`evidence of circumstances that justify an inference of retaliatory motive, such as protected conduct closely followed by adverse action.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the subject matter of the acts— whether the violations constitute the same type of discrimination; (2) the frequency of the acts; and (3) the permanence of the acts — whether the nature of the violations should trigger an employee’s awareness of the need to assert her rights and whether the consequences of an act would continue even in the absence of a continuing intent to discriminate.”
4 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.