Crowley v. L.L. Bean, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
303 F.3d 387 · 2002
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 79 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Noviello v. City of Boston (2005), Che v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (2003)
58 federal appellate · 79 district · 8 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 Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan · Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that she (or he) is a member of a protected class; (2) that she was subjected to unwelcome sexual harassment; (3) that the harassment was based upon sex; (4) that the harassment was sufficiently severe or pervasive so as to alter the conditions of plaintiffs employment and create an abusive work environment; (5) that sexually objectionable conduct was both objectively and subjectively offensive, such that a reasonable person would find it hostile or abusive and the victim in fact did perceive it to be so; and (6) that some basis for employer liability has been established.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“knew or should have known of the charged sexual harassment and failed to implement prompt and appropriate action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“weighted toward preservation of the jury verdict”
3 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.