Christopher Lack Susan Willis v. Wal-Mart Stores Incorporated James Bragg Christopher Lack Susan Willis’s Empirical Analysis
240 F.3d 255 · 2001
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Ocheltree v. Scollon Productions, Inc. (2003), La Day v. Catalyst Technology, Inc. (2002)
11 federal appellate · 7 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 Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. · Price v. City of Charlotte · Chaudhry v. Gallerizzo · Duke
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In its totality, the evidence compels the conclusion that Bragg was just an indiscriminately vulgar and offensive supervisor, obnoxious to men and women alike.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“fact that female employees ... lodged similar complaints”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“animated by Bragg's hostility to Lack as a man”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.