Freeman v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2022
1 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 633A (§ 15 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plaintiff may establish age — or gender-based discrimination in two different ways. He may offer direct evidence of the employer’s discriminatory motive by producing “evidence which, if believed, requires the conclusion that unlawful discrimination was at least a motivating factor in the employer’s actions.” Mitchell v. Vanderbilt Univ. 389 F.3d 177, 181 (6th Cir.2004) (quoting Wexler v. White’s Fine Furniture, Inc., 317 F.3d 564, 570 (6th Cir.2003)(en banc)). If he cannot come forward with evidence of a discriminatory motive, he may offer indirect and circumstantial evidence of such a motive under the familiar McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting approach. Id. (citation omitted).”
1 later decision 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.