April M. Clark v. Marvin T. Runyon, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service’s Empirical Analysis
218 F.3d 915 · 2000
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Rodgers v. U.S. Bank, N.A. (2005), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Kohler Co. (2003)
40 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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 · Harvey v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. · Lynn v. Deaconess Medical Center-West Campus · Perkins v. Spivey
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“have dealt with the same supervisor, have been subject to the same standards, and engaged in the same conduct without any mitigating or distinguishing circumstances.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“similarly situated in all relevant aspects.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Both actual violence and threats of violence are legitimate reasons for terminating an employee.”
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.