Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. University of Chicago Hospitals’s Empirical Analysis
276 F.3d 326 · 2002
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Herrnreiter v. Chicago Housing Authority (2002), Shepherd v. Hunterdon Developmental Center (2002)
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Cruz LOPEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. S.B. THOMAS, INC., Defendant-Appellee · Lisa L. Fitzgerald v. William Henderson, Postmaster General, United States Postal Service · Berg v. County of Allegheny
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the handwriting [was] on the wall' and the axe was about to fall,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen an employer acts in a manner so as to have communicated to a reasonable employee that she will be terminated, and the plaintiff employee resigns, the employer's conduct may amount to a constructive discharge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] person who is told repeatedly that [s]he is not wanted [and] has no future ... would not be acting unreasonably if he decided that to remain with this employer would necessarily be inconsistent with even a minimal sense of self-respect, and therefore intolerable.”
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.