Teemac v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
298 F.3d 452 · 2002
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Ramirez v. City of San Antonio (2002), Harris v. Gonzales (2007)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Baldwin County Welcome Center v. Brown · Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Mohasco Corp. v. Silver · Chandler v. Roudebush · Allentown MacK Sales & Service, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board
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.
“shall extend the 45-day time limit ... when the individual shows that he or she was not notified of the time limits and was not otherwise aware of them, that he or she did not know and reasonably should not have known that the discriminatory matter or personnel action occurred, that despite due diligence he or she was prevented by circumstances beyond his or her control from contacting the counselor within time limits, or for other reasons considered sufficient by the agency or the Commission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Equitable tolling applies principally where the plaintiff is actively misled by the defendant about the cause of action or is prevented in some extraordinary way from asserting his rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The party who invokes equitable tolling bears the burden of proof.”
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.