Wyvill v. United Companies Life Insurance’s Empirical Analysis

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16 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

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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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Anecdotes about other ' employees' cannot establish that discrimination was a company’s standard operating procedure unless those employees are similarly situated to the plaintiff. This court and others have held that testimony from former employees who had different supervisors than the plaintiff, who worked in different parts of the employer’s company, or whose terminations were removed in time from the plaintiffs termination cannot be probative of whether age was a determinative factor in the plaintiffs discharge,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lay v. Singing River Health System · Rachid v. Jack in Box, Inc.

2. “In order for a[] [protected class-]based comment to be probative of an employer's discriminatory intent, it must be direct and unambiguous, allowing a reasonable jury to conclude without any inferences or presumptions that [the employee's protected class] was a determinative factor in the decision to terminate the employee.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Veronica Wallace v. The Methodist Hospital System -

3. “There was no evidence, for example, that United Companies ... complied with standard disciplinary procedures when filing reports on younger workers but flouted them when it came to [the plaintiffs].”). 21 . See Berquist v. Wash. Mut. Bank, 500 F.3d 344 , 353 (5th Cir.2007) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Powers v. Woodlands Religious Community Inc.