DiCentes v. Michaud’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Higgins v. New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. (1999), McElroy v. State (2005)
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 14 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 · Faragher v. City of Boca Raton · Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Shaner v. Horizon Bancorp. · Fennell v. First Step Designs, Ltd.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [s]he engaged in activity protected by the [M]WPA; (2)[s]he experienced an adverse employment action; and (3) a causal connection existed between the protected activity and the adverse employment action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Proof of conduct protected by the WPA ... followed in close proximity by an adverse employment action, gives rise to an inference that a causal connection is established....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that there was, in fact, a causal connection between the protected activity and the adverse employment action.”
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.