Moyo v. Gomez’s Empirical Analysis
32 F.3d 1382 · 1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Jennifer Passantino Charles Passantino v. Johnson & Johnson Consumer Order and Products Inc (2000), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. HBE Corp. (1998)
5 federal appellate · 7 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 Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Rogers v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Hale v. State of Arizona · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Crown Zellerbach Corp.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be[en] able to state a retaliation claim if he could show that his belief that an unlawful employment practice occurred ... was otherwise 'reasonable.' The reasonableness of Moyo's belief that an unlawful employment practice occurred [was to] be assessed according to an objective standard - one that makes due allowance, moreover, for the limited knowledge possessed by most Title VII plaintiffs about the factual and legal bases of their claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n erroneous belief that an employer engaged in an unlawful employment practice is reasonable, and thus actionable under § 704(a), if premised on a mistake made in good faith. A good-faith mistake may be one of fact or of law.”
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.