Griffin v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
356 F.3d 824 · 2004
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 403 Ill. App. 3d 899 - Owens v. Department of Human Rights (2010), Ellis v. CCA of Tennessee LLC (2011)
9 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Brooks v. City of San Mateo · Oest v. Illinois Department of Corrections · Johnson v. Cambridge Industries, Inc. · Spring v. Sheboygan Area School District
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“General hostility and comments do not qualify as actionable adverse employment actions unless the hostility was severe and pervasive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if a raise would have been an expected element of the employee's salary and its denial cuts the salary in real terms”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be materially adverse, not merely an inconvenience or a change in job responsibilities.”
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.