Price v. Federal Express Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.3d 715 · 2002
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Laxton v. Gap Inc. (2003), Manning v. Chevron Chemical Co., LLC (2003)
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Crane v. Stern
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) he is a member of a protected class; (2) he is qualified for the position; (3) he suffered an adverse employment action; and (4) others outside the class who were similarly situated were treated more favorably than he.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n employee's 'better education, work experience, and longer tenure with the company do not establish that [s]he is clearly better qualified.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“leap from the record and cry out to all who would listen that [the plaintiff] was vastly—or even clearly—more qualified for the subject job.”
2 later decisions 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.