Wells v. Colorado Department of Transportation’s Empirical Analysis
325 F.3d 1205 · 2003
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 33 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Brady v. Office of the Sergeant at Arms (2008), Torgerson v. City of Rochester (2011)
33 federal appellate · 33 district · 4 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 · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · Illinois v. Gates · Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc.
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o be an adverse action, the employer's conduct must be `materially adverse' to the employee's job status.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“constitute[ ] a significant change in employment status, such as hiring, firing, failing to promote, reassignment with significantly different responsibilities, or a decision causing significant change in benefits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t hardly requires stating that when an employer tells an employee that she no longer has a job, that employee's job status has been significantly and materially altered.”
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.