Benjamin v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Denke v. Shoemaker (2008), McDonald v. Department of Environmental Quality (2009)
44 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 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 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 Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan · Richardson v. New York State Department of Correctional Service · Lockard v. Pizza Hut, Inc. · Morgan v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A hearing examiner, when one is used, is in the unique position of hearing and observing all testimony entered in the case.... The findings of the hearing examiner, especially as to witness credibility, are therefore entitled to great deference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“As long as we determine that substantial credible evidence exists to support the findings of the trier of fact, we may not re-weigh the evidence, but must instead defer to the Hearing Examiner.”
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.