Arnold Roderrick v. Denny's Inc’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 district · 2 state decisions

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

1. “[Asian American and African American] Plaintiffs have done little more than cite to their mistreatment and ask the court to conclude that it must have been related to their race. This is not sufficient.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Frascatore v. Blake · 292 F. Supp. 2d 498 - Jessamy v. City of New Rochelle, New York

2. “the cited instances of hostility, considered in context, did little to support an inference of discriminatory intent. A failure to greet customers on an extremely busy evening and an exasperated — even testy — response to a complaint of discrimination do not constitute marked hostility as defined, nor are they conduct which should be presumed to have its origins in racial bias. Having been directed to remove Lizardo, the subsequent shoving of Lizardo and Du-gan by the security officers in the heated exchange of words does suggest anger, but there is nothing to suggest that the anger stemmed from a bias against people of Lizardo’s race.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Leach v. Heyman

3. “the Court must examine the entire record to determine if the [plaintiff] meets [his] ultimate burden of persuading the fact-finder of a central element of a ... claim; namely, that defendants intentionally discriminated against [him] on the basis of [his] race ... Whether summary judgment is appropriate here depends upon ‘the strength of the plaintiffs prima facie case, the probative value of the proof that the defendants’ explanation is false, and any other evidence’ that supports the defendants’ case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 248 F. Supp. 2d 117 - Jenkins v. Area Cooperative Education Services