Brauninger v. Motes’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2024
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1746
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Monge v. California · Palmer v. Hoffman · Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the key issue is not whether the accusations were true but instead whether [the employer] relied on them-mistakenly or not-in making a nondiscriminatory decision.”
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.