Steward v. Sears Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district ·

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

1. “A plaintiff is not required to "cast doubt on each proffered reason in a vacuum. If the defendant proffers a bagful of legitimate reasons, and the plaintiff manages to cast substantial doubt on a fair number of them, the plaintiff may not need to discredit the remainder. That is because the factfinder's rejection of some of the defendant's proffered reasons may impede the employer's credibility seriously enough so that a factfinder may rationally disbelieve the remaining proffered reasons, even if no evidence undermining those remaining rationales in particular is available."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McSparran v. Commonwealth

2. “[although replacement by someone younger, without more, will not give rise to an inference of age discrimination, it has been noted that a substantial difference in the ages may be circumstantial evidence that gives rise to that inference”). 19 . Snook was himself 50 years old when he terminated Mease. While there is no”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 726 F. Supp. 2d 429 - Mease v. Wilmington Trust Co.

3. “the District Court erred in deciding whether to overturn the jury’s verdict by categorically measuring the age difference between [the plaintiff] and his replacements as 6.75 years.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carter v. Mid-Atlantic Healthcare, LLC