Benoit v. Technical Manufacturing Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
331 F.3d 166 · 2003
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 192 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 242 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Valentín-Almeyda v. Municipality of Aguadilla (2006), Forestier Fradera v. Municipality of Mayagüez (2006)
29 federal appellate · 192 district · 2 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 McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. v. Williams · Mesnick v. General Electric Co.
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 242 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conclusory allegations, improbable inferences, and unsupported speculation.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Retaliation No person shall discriminate against any individual because such individual has opposed any act or practice made unlawful by this chapter or because such individual made a charge, testified, assisted, or participated in any manner in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing under this chapter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In assessing pretext, the court must look at the total package of proof offered by the plaintiff.”
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.