Cruz v. Coach Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
202 F.3d 560 · 2000
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 44 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 585 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Terry v. Ashcroft (2003), Patterson v. County of Oneida (2004)
65 federal appellate · 44 district · 4 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 · Conley v. Gibson · Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Faragher v. City of Boca Raton
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 585 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Determining whether workplace harassment was severe or pervasive enough to be actionable depends on the totality of the circumstances.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“action taken to protest or oppose statutorily prohibited discrimination”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(In addition to protecting the filing of formal charges of discrimination, § 704(a)’s opposition clause protects as well informal protests of discriminatory employment practices, including making complaints to management, writing critical letters to customers, protesting against discrimination by industry or by society in general, and expressing support of co-workers who have filed formal charges.)”
6 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.