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← 253 FSUPP3D 244 - Breen v. Mineta

Breen v. Mineta’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
October 2018
most recently cited

1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 623 (§ 4 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 29 U.S.C. § 633A (§ 15 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967) · 49 U.S.C. § 46110 · 5 U.S.C. § 2109

Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Scott v. Harris · Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. · Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins

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

  1. “that (1) [the plaintiff] is a member of a protected class, (2) [the plaintiff] suffered an adverse employment action,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “under the familiar McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting framework.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “they [we]re subject to multiple interpretations”
    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.