Roger v. Yellow Freight Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 146 · 1994
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Hedberg v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co. (1995), Doe v. Rr Donnelley & Sons Company (1994)
57 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
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · 74 Ill. 2d 172 - Kelsay v. Motorola, Inc. · In re Disbarment of Gonzales · Tiller v. NCNB Bank
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A genuine issue for trial exists only when a reasonable jury could find for the party opposing the motion based on the record as a whole.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ummary judgment will not be defeated simply because motive or intent are involved”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affirmatively show[ing] that the discharge was primarily in retaliation for his exercise of a protected right.”
3 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.